Development of an AMS method to study oceanic circulation characteristics using cosmogenic 39Ar

  • Ph Collon*
  • , M. Bichler
  • , J. Caggiano
  • , L. De Wayne Cecil
  • , Y. El Masri
  • , R. Golser
  • , C. L. Jiang
  • , A. Heinz
  • , D. Henderson
  • , W. Kutschera
  • , B. E. Lehmann
  • , P. Leleux
  • , H. H. Loosli
  • , R. C. Pardo
  • , M. Paul
  • , K. E. Rehm
  • , P. Schlosser
  • , R. H. Scott
  • , W. M. Smethie
  • , R. Vondrasek
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Initial experiments at the ATLAS facility [Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 92 (1994) 241] resulted in a clear detection of cosmogenic 39Ar signal at the natural level. The present paper summarizes the recent developments of 39Ar AMS measurements at ATLAS: the use of an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) positive ion source equipped with a special quartz liner to reduce 39K background, the development of a gas handling system for small volume argon samples, the acceleration of 39Ar8+ ions to 232 MeV, and the final separation of 39Ar from 39K in a gas-filled spectrograph. The first successful AMS measurements of 39Ar in ocean water samples from the Southern Atlantic ventilation experiment (SAVE) are reported. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)428-434
Number of pages7
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume223-224
Issue numberSPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2004

Keywords

  • Accelerator mass spectrometry
  • Ar
  • Ocean circulation

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