Negative Ion Source Development for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Negative Ion Source Development for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry CJ Tiessen, WE Kieser, and XL Zhao Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a highly sensitive technique used for the analysis of long-lived radioisotopes. While carbon-14 dating is the most well known application, AMS can be used to measure other isotopes such as beryllium-10, aluminum-26, iodine-129, and uranium-236 which are useful in geology, archeology, environmental tracer and chronology studies, nuclear waste monitoring, and nuclear forensics. The technique uses a combination of electrostatic analyzers, mass-separation magnets, electrostatic lenses, as well as a tandem accelerator. In the accelerator, an electron stripping gas canal is used to convert incoming negative ions to positive ions while simultaneously disintegrating molecular isobars. Ions from the samples are injected into the accelerator using a cesium sputter negative-ion source. The focus of this work is to model the electrodynamics within the ion source, including the effects of the more intense positive cesium ion beam and the sputtered sample negative-ion beam. Simulations using Integrated Engineering Software’s Lorentz 2E ion optics software will guide the design of a new ion source with the goal of increasing the emitted sample ion current while also improving the emittance of this beam. Following a short overview of the AMS system, details of the ion source, including the mutual space-charge interaction of the two beams, will be presented.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".