title: Note: Production of a mercury beam with an electron cyclotron resonance ion source.
abstract: An electron cyclotron resonance ion source has been utilized to produce mercury beams with intensities of 4.5 eμA of (202)Hg(29+) and 3.0 eμA of (202)Hg(31+) from natural abundance mercury metal. The production technique relies on the evaporation of liquid mercury into the source plasma vacuum region and utilizes elemental mercury instead of a volatile organic compound as the neutral feed material.
authors.affiliation: Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vondrasek
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scott