Published January 14, 1985 | Version v1
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Submillisecond on-line mass separation of nonvolatile radioactive elements: An application of charge exchange and thermalization processes of primary recoil ions in helium

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland

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Transportation of thermalized primary recoil ions from nuclear reactions by helium flow has been investigated as a means of injecting short-lived radioactive nuclides into an on-line isotope separator. Several short-lived radioactive isotopes of highly nonvolatile elements such as B, Sc, Nb, and W have been separated. The efficiency for heavy nuclides with half-lives above 1 ms is between 1 and 10%. The shortest-lived activity identified in an on-line separation is the 182-μs isomeric state in 207Bi

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
2
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
99-101
ISSN
0031-9007