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A Beam Profile Monitor for Rare Isotopes in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Preliminary Measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

F Taccetti ,
L Carraresi ,
M E Fedi ,
M Manetti ,
P Mariani ,
G Tobia  and
P A Mandò
F Taccetti
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
L Carraresi
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
M E Fedi*
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
M Manetti
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
P Mariani
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
G Tobia
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
P A Mandò
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
*
Corresponding author. Email: fedi@fi.infn.it
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Abstract

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In accelerator systems, beam lines are generally equipped with diagnostic elements, such as Faraday cups and beam profile monitors (BPM), to optimize beam transport. These diagnostic elements, or at least commercial ones, are designed to only work with continuous beams, and their typical maximum sensitivity is about few tens of pA. Thus, in the case of diagnosis of rare isotope beams in accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), Faraday cups and BPMs are not suitable on the high-energy side of the tandem accelerator, after energy-mass-charge analysis. For example, in 14C AMS, even for a modern sample, the expected counting rate is a few tens of Hz; in these conditions, a commercial BPM cannot be used. On the other hand, checking the shape and the position of the rare isotope beam hitting the detector can be important in order to better identify signals in the detector itself, thus also helping in reducing the measurement background.

This paper presents a prototype BPM especially designed for low-intensity beams. The BPM is based on a multiwire proportional chamber characterized by 2 grids of anode wires, oriented perpendicular to each other in order to measure both the x and the y coordinates of the particle impact point. Details about the design and the electronics of the device are given, and the first test measurements are discussed.

Type
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 2: 20th Int. Radiocarbon Conference Proceedings , 2010 , pp. 272 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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