The front end test stand is being constructed at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, with the aim of producing a 60 mA, 2 ms, 50 Hz, perfectly chopped H(-) ion beam. To meet the beam requirements, a more detailed understanding of the ion source plasma is required. To this end, an initial study is made of the optical spectrum of the plasma using a digital spectrometer. The atomic and molecular e...

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) plasma spectroscopy is one the diagnostics implemented at the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A grating spectrometer covering the spectral region of 25 450 Å with a resolution of 0.3 Å was used as an impurity diagnostic to monitor the plasmas and to carry out atomic physics research. Several low-Z impurities ...

Neutron powder diffraction based atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs) are reported from the new wide angular-range chopper spectrometer ARCS at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The spectrometer was run in white-beam mode with no Fermi chopper. The PDF patterns of Ni and Al2O3 were refined using the PDFfit method and the results compared to data c...

O desempenho de um espectrômetro de absorção atômica com filamento de tungstênio, fonte contínua de deutério, monocromador Czerny-Turner e um detector de estado sólido foi avaliado para Zn. As principais características do instrumento são a simplicidade de operação e o custo relativamente baixo. Apesar do alto limite de detecção (40 μg L, 3 desvio padrão do branco/coeficiente angular), Zn foi d...

A continuum-source tungsten coil electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometer has been assembled, evaluated, and employed in four different applications. The instrument consists of a xenon arc lamp light source, a tungsten coil atomizer, a Czerny-Turner high resolution monochromator, and a linear photodiode array detector. This instrument provides simultaneous multi-element analyses across a 4...

We have developed and implemented a broadband X-ray spectrometer with a variable energy range for use at the Atomic Weapons Establishment's Orion Laser. The spectrometer covers an energy bandwidth of ∼1-2 keV using two independently mounted, movable Bragg diffraction crystals. Using combinations of cesium hydrogen pthlate, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, and pentaerythritol crystals, spectra cov...

a novel, simple, sensitive and effective method has been developed for preconcentration of hg(ii) on nano-fe3o4-dop-ed solid-phase extraction adsorbent. in this paper, dioctyl phthalate (dop) was used to encapsulate nano-fe3o4 and produce a nano-fe3o4-dop sorbent based new sorbent was prepared. this was treated with ethylenediamine (ed) in another solvent-free procedure for the formation of a n...