Ion Beam Facility at the University of Chile; Applications and Basic Research

Journal Article · Wed Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3480255· OSTI ID:21431120

Miranda, P A; Morales, J R; Cancino, S; Dinator, M I; Donoso, N; Sepulveda, A; Ortiz, P; Rojas, S ^[1]

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1. Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile (Chile)

The main characteristics of the ion beam facility based on a 3.75 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator at the University of Chile are described at this work. Current activities are mainly focused on the application of the Ion Beam Analysis techniques for environmental, archaeological, and material science analysis. For instance, Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS) is applied to measure thin gold film thickness which are used to determine their resistivity and other electrical properties. At this laboratory the Proton Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) and Proton Elastic Scattering Analysis (PESA) methodologies are extensively used for trace element analysis of urban aerosols (Santiago, Ciudad de Mexico). A similar study is being carried out at the Antarctica Peninsula. Characterization studies on obsidian and vitreous dacite samples using PIXE has been also perform allowing to match some of these artifacts with geological source sites in Chile.Basic physics research is being carried out by measuring low-energy cross section values for the reactions {sup 63}Cu(d,p){sup 64}Cu and {sup Nat}Zn(p,x){sup 67}Ga. Both radionuclide {sup 64}Cu and {sup 67}Ga are required for applications in medicine. Ongoing stopping power cross section measurements of proton and alphas on Pd, Cu, Bi and Mylar are briefly discussed.

• OSTI ID: 21431120
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1265, Issue 1; Conference: 8. Latin American symposium on nuclear physics and applications, Santiago (Chile), 15-19 Dec 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3480255; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
COPPER 63 TARGET
COPPER 64
CROSS SECTIONS
DEUTERON REACTIONS
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
EMISSION
FILMS
GALLIUM 67
GOLD
ION BEAMS
IONS
MEV RANGE 01-10
PIXE ANALYSIS
PROTON-EMISSION DECAY
PROTONS
RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY
STOPPING POWER
THICKNESS
VAN DE GRAAFF ACCELERATORS
X RADIATION
ACCELERATORS
BARYONS
BEAMS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
COPPER ISOTOPES
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
DECAY
DIMENSIONS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY RANGE
FERMIONS
GALLIUM ISOTOPES
HADRONS
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
IONIZING RADIATIONS
ISOTOPES
METALS
MEV RANGE
NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS
NUCLEAR DECAY
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEONS
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATIONS
RADIOISOTOPES
SCATTERING
SPECTROSCOPY
TARGETS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
X-RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS