title: 129I measurements on the 1MV AMS facility at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA, Spain).
abstract: The AMS system at CNA has been the first 1MV compact AMS system designed and manufactured by HVE. In this paper we present the experimental set-up for (129)I measurements in this facility. Charge state +3 has been selected at high-energy side and an optimum stripper pressure of 6×10(-3)mbar of argon (mass thickness of about 0.15μgcm(-2)) has been reached to obtain lowest blank values ((129)I/(127)I≅3×10(-13)). The measurements of the reference materials provided by the IAEA have demonstrated the viability of this facility to make routine measurements of (129)I at environmental levels. This blank value obtained is enough for the measurement of most environmental samples and comparable with other reported backgrounds obtained in facilities working at higher energies and higher charge states.
authors.affiliation: Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, Avda. Thomas Alba Edison 7, 41092 Seville, Spain. jm_gomez@us.es
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gómez-Guzmán
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: López-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Pinto-Gómez
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Holm
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D010315:Particle Accelerators; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013030:Spain
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes