Abstract
CologneAMS is a new centre for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) at
the University of Cologne. It has been funded by the German Research
Foundation (DFG) to improve the experimental conditions especially for
those German scientists that apply the AMS technique for their geologic,
environmental, nuclear chemical, and nuclear astrophysical research. The
new AMS-device has been built by High Voltage Engineering Europe (HVEE)
and has been installed in the existing accelerator area of the Institute
of Nuclear Physics. The AMS-facility is designed for the spectrometry of
Be-10, C-14, Al-26, Cl-36, Ca-41, I-129 in and heavy ions up to U-236
and Pu-244. The central part of the AMS-facility is a 6 MV Tandetron
(TM) accelerator. Downstream of the high energy mass spectrometer an
additional switching magnet is used as a further filter element which
supplies also additional ports for future extensions of the detector
systems. The current status of CologneAMS and the results of the first
test measurements will be presented. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights
reserved.
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