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. 2020 Jul 30;11:3824. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17599-2

Fig. 4. Production of a negative astatine ion beam.

Fig. 4

Astatine atoms (green circles) are created in a spallation reaction of thorium (white circles) with 1.4 GeV protons (red circles). Subsequently, the atoms are negatively ionized and extracted as a mono-energetic beam (blue circles) with an energy of 20 keV. The 211At isotopes are then mass separated with an electromagnetic mass separator and directed to the GANDALPH spectrometer.