Mr
David Garton
(ANSTO)
05/10/2012, 09:00
Oral
We have investigated the use of sulphur hexafluoride as a stripper gas in tandem accelerators. We have used the ANTARES accelerator system at ANSTO to measure charge state distributions for this gas. Results are reported at 4MV terminal voltage for injected negative ions ranging from carbon to uranium oxide. For iodine and thorium the distributions are extended across a range of energies of...