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Astatine and yttrium resonant ionization laser spectroscopy

Providing intense, contamination-free beams of rare isotopes to experiments is a challenging task. At isotope separator on-line facilities such as ISAC at TRIUMF, the choice of production target and ion source are key to the successful beam delivery. Due to their element-selectivity, high efficiency and versatility, resonant ionization laser ion sources (RILIS) gain increasingly in importance.
The spectroscopic data available are typically incomplete in the region of excited- and autoionizing atomic states. In order to find the most efficient ionization scheme for a particular element, further spectroscopy is often required. The development of efficient laser resonant ionization schemes for yttrium and astatine is presented in this thesis.
For yttrium, two ionization schemes with comparable relative intensities were found. Since for astatine, only two transitions were known, the focus was to provide data on atomic energy levels using resonance ionization spectroscopy. Altogether 41 previously unknown astatine energy levels were found.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/8866
Date18 September 2012
CreatorsTeigelhoefer, Andrea
ContributorsGwinner, Gerald (Physics and Astronomy) Lassen, Jens (Physics and Astronomy), Page, Shelly (Physics and Astronomy) Major, Arkady (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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