Speaker
Mr
Wicher van Bree
(Radboud University)
Description
Calcium-48 is an important isotope of calcium for scientific research.
It has been instrumental in the discovery of the heaviest elements and
has great potential in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
Unfortunately its natural abundance is only 0.18% and the production
costs are around 0.5M€/g. We report on a method to enrich heavy calcium.
Our method using a low melting-point molten salt mixture should allow to
substantially reduce the costs and improve the availability of Ca-48
Primary author
Mr
Wicher van Bree
(Radboud University)
Co-authors
Julia Even
(University of Groningen)
Lisa van der Werff
(University of Groningen)
Prof.
Nicolo de Groot
(Radboud University)
