ANSTO's new Centre for Accelerator Science has taken delivery of the first of two new accelerators that will expand opportunities for the organisation and its partners.
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| Careful assembly is required by the dedicated team of one of three ten ton high-resolution analysing magnets |
The new 1MV AMS accelerator system arrived at the end of September in Australia from the factory in the USA. The three shipping containers it came in were delivered to ANSTO a few days later and unloaded into our new accelerator beam hall. The parts are now being carefully re-assembled for testing in November.
The 1MV AMS system is designed specifically for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). This system is custom designed with the capability to perform high efficiency, high precision AMS analysis across the full mass range.
Accelerator science aims to characterise samples using ions accelerated to extraordinarily high kinetic energies in a particle accelerator. At ANSTO, accelerator Science is typically performed as either Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) or AMS.
The accelerators that arrived have a vast array of applications and can be used for the A to Z (archaeology to zoology) of science. It can measure rare radioisotopes from radiocarbon (for dating applications) to plutonium (for nuclear safeguards and forensics), and anything in between. Check out some examples of recent work we've done below.
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| The 1MV accelerator tank being unloaded at the new Centre for Accelerator Science at ANSTO's Lucas Heights campus in Sydney |
Published: 24/10/2013