Feasibility of photodetachment isobar suppression of WF5- with respect to HfF5

• The feasibility of using laser photodetachment as a means for isobar suppression in accelerator mass spectrometry has been investigated for the special case of HfF5-/WF5-. A method for absolute photodetachrnent cross section measurements was applied and the cross sections of tungsten pentafluoride and hafnium pentafluoride negative ions were measured. The measurements indicate that the photodetachment cross section for WF5- is at least 100 times larger than for HfF5- at the wavelength of the fourth harmonic of the Nd:YAG laser at 266 nm. The absolute cross section for WF5- at this photon energy was found to be (2.8 +/- 0.3) x 10(-18) cm(2), while an upper limit of 2 x 10(-2) cm(2) was obtained for the HfF5- cross section. The measured cross sections indicate that an optical filtering scheme for isobar suppression in accelerator mass spectrometry for the case of Hf-182 should be feasible. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Negative ions

Photodetachment

Isobar suppression

Accelerator mass spectrometry

Absolute cross

NEGATIVE-IONS

HF-182

LASERS

COOLER

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