Published June 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of 182Hf with HI-13 AMS system

  • 1. Chinese People's Armed Police Force Academy, Langfang, Hebei, 065000 (China)
  • 2. Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, 102413 (China)
  • 3. College of Physics Science and Engineering Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004 (China)

Description

182Hf with half-life of about (8.90 ± 0.09) Ma is an extinct radionuclide and can only be produced by a supernova explosion in nature. 182Hf is one of a few radionuclides in the million-year half-life range for tracing a possible supernova event in the vicinity of the Earth within the last 100 million years. This may be accomplished by finding measurable traces of live 182Hf in suitable terrestrial archives. With accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), an ultra-sensitive nuclear analytical technique, it is possible to detect minute amounts of 182Hf. The detection method of 182Hf with HI-13 AMS system at China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) and the chemical procedures to reduce 182W interference are presented

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nimb.2007.01.228;
PII
S0168-583X(07)00237-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Journal Volume
259
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 246-249
ISSN
0168-583X
CODEN
NIMBEU

Conference

Title
10. international conference on accelerator mass spectrometry
Dates
5-10 Sep 2005
Place
Berkeley, CA (United States)

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.