Deep-Sea and Lunar Radioisotopes from Nearby Astrophysical Explosions

BD Fields, A Wallner - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Live (not decayed) radioisotopes on the Earth and Moon are messengers from recent
nearby astrophysical explosions. Measurements of 60Fe in deep-sea samples, Antarctic …

Atom counting with accelerator mass spectrometry

W Kutschera, AJT Jull, M Paul, A Wallner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) was born in the late 1970s, when it was realized at
nuclear physics laboratories that the accelerator systems can be used as a sensitive mass …

Interstellar in Antarctica

D Koll, G Korschinek, T Faestermann… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Earth is constantly bombarded with extraterrestrial dust containing invaluable information
about extraterrestrial processes, such as structure formation by stellar explosions or …

Developing accelerator mass spectrometry capabilities for anthropogenic radionuclide analysis to extend the set of oceanographic tracers

K Hain, M Martschini, F Gülce, M Honda… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent major advances in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) at the Vienna
Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) regarding detection efficiency and isobar …

5 years of ion-laser interaction mass spectrometry—Status and prospects of isobar suppression in AMS by lasers

M Martschini, J Lachner, K Hain, M Kern, O Marchhart… - …, 2022 - cambridge.org
A setup for ion-laser interaction was coupled to the state-of-the-art AMS facility VERA five
years ago and its potential and applicability as a new means of isobar suppression in …

Accelerator mass spectrometry with ANU's 14 million volt accelerator

A Wallner, LK Fifield, MB Froehlich, D Koll… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) at the Department of Nuclear Physics and
Accelerator Applications (Australian National University) is based on a 14UD tandem …

Ultratrace Determination of 99Tc in Small Natural Water Samples by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry with the Gas-Filled Analyzing Magnet System

F Quinto, C Busser, T Faestermann, K Hain… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the frame of studies on the safe disposal of nuclear waste, there is a great interest for
understanding the migration behavior of 99Tc. 99Tc originating from nuclear energy …

Origin of recent interstellar 60Fe on Earth

D Koll, T Faestermann, G Korschinek… - EPJ Web of …, 2020 - epj-conferences.org
Over the last 20 years, evidence for a 2 Myr old supernova 60 Fe influx onto Earth was
provided by several authors. For the first time, independent investigations of samples from …

The dyadic radionuclide system 60Fe/53Mn to distinguish interstellar from interplanetary 60Fe

D Koll, T Faestermann, G Korschinek… - EPJ Web of …, 2022 - epj-conferences.org
The discovery of live 60 Fe in a deep-sea crust with proposed interstellar origin followed by
evidence for elevated interplanetary 3 He in the same crust raised the question on how to …

Isobar suppression studies for 99Tc detection using Ion-Laser InterAction Mass Spectrometry (ILIAMS)

K Hain, S Adler, F Gülce, M Martschini, J Pitters… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Ion-Laser InterAction Mass Spectrometry (ILIAMS) has the potential to discriminate
99 Tc against isobaric background caused by stable 99 Ru to allow for the detection of …