The new 6 MV AMS-facility DREAMS at Dresden


The new 6 MV AMS-facility DREAMS at Dresden

Akhmadaliev, S.; Heller, R.; Hanf, D.; Rugel, G.; Merchel, S.

A new 6 MV electrostatic tandem accelerator has been put into operation at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). It will be used for ion beam analysis as well as for material modification via high-energy ion implantation. The system is also equipped for accelerator mass spectrometry and opens a new research field at HZDR and the Helmholtz Association. The research activity at the DREsden Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility (DREAMS) based on a 6 MV Tandetron is primarily dedicated to the long-lived radioisotopes of 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, 41Ca, and 129I.
DREAMS background levels have been found of 4.5x10-16 for 10Be/9Be, 8x10-16 for 26Al/27Al, 3x10-15 for 36Cl/35Cl and 8x10-15 for 41Ca/40Ca, respectively. The observed background of 2x10-13 for 129I/127I originates from intrinsic 129I from AgI produced from commercial KI. The introduction of quality assurance approaches for AMS, such as the use of traceable calibration materials and taking part in interlaboratory comparisons, guarantees high accuracy data for future DREAMS users.
During first experiments an energy calibration of the accelerator has been carried out using the nuclear reaction 1H(15N,γα)12C yielding an energy correction factor of 1.019.

Keywords: accelerator mass spectrometry; electrostatic accelerator

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