Boutique neutrons advance Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology

Rutte, D; Renne, PR; Morrell, J; Qi, LQ; Ayllon, M; van Bibber, K; Wilson, J; Becker, TA; Batchelder, J; Bernstein, LA; Lebois, M; James, J; Chong, SA; Heriot, WL; Wallace, M; Marcial, A; Johnson, C; Woolley, G; Adams, PA

Rutte, D (reprint author), Berkeley Geochronol Ctr, Berkeley, CA 94709 USA.; Rutte, D (reprint author), Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.; Rutte, D (reprint author), Univ Bonn, Inst Geowissensch, D-53115 Bonn, German

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2019; 5 (9):

Abstract

We designed and tested a compact deuteron-deuteron fusion neutron generator for application to Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology. The nearly monoenergetic neu......

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