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1 PublicationAccelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) for beryllium-7 measurements in smallest rainwater samples
Tiessen, C.; Bemmerer, D.; Rugel, G.; Querfeld, R.; Scharf, A.; Steinhauser, G.; Merchel, S.
Abstract
Beryllium-7, mainly measured via γ-spectrometry, is used as a (natural) radiotracer for education and science. For lower activities (<0.1 Bq) and samples containing also longer-lived ¹⁰Be, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is the method-of-choice. We demonstrate that ⁷Be- and ¹⁰Be can be quantified at the Dresden AMS facility on the same prepared BeO. Detection limits (⁷Be) are ~0.6 mBq. Samples as small as tens of millilitre of rainwater can be chemically processed (after acidification) within a few hours without expensive and slow ion exchange. Isobar (⁷Li) suppression by chemistry and AMS is sufficient to guarantee for an ultrasensitive, cheap, and fast detection method for ⁷Be allowing high sample throughput.
Keywords: ⁷Be; ¹⁰Be; accelerator mass spectrometry; AMS; rain
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- Ion Beam Center DOI: 10.17815/jlsrf-3-159
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