Status of routine operation and developments at DREAMS

Since fall 2011, the DREsden AMS-facility (DREAMS), has performed routine AMS at the Ion Beam Centre’s (IBC) 6 MV tandem accelerator located at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf [1, 2]. The accelerator is shared with others for purposes such as ion beam analysis and high-energy ion implantation. Measurements of ¹⁰Be, ²⁶Al, ³⁶Cl, ⁴¹Ca, and ¹²⁹I are routinely performed for a wide range of applications. Samples are prepared in close cooperation with DREAMS’s users, mostly in our two dedicated, high quality laboratories on-site [3]. One particular ion source with a very low long-term memory is used exclusively for measuring the halogens (³⁶Cl and ¹²⁹I) [4]. For measurements of ²⁶Al/²⁷Al ratios we have reduced the background to 6×10^-16. Additionally, we started to investigate the potential for non-routine AMS-nuclide determination (stable and short-lived) for e.g. astrophysical applications.
[1] Akhmadaliev et al., NIMB 294 (2013) 5. [2] Rugel et al. NIMB 370 (2016) 94. [3] Merchel et al. these proceedings [4] S. Pavetich et al., NIMB 329 (2014) 22.