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[[File:Beschleunigertank VERA mit Studenten.jpg|thumb|Accelerator tank VERA with students (2019)]]
The '''Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator''', '''VERA''', is a [[particle accelerator]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kutschera |first1=W. |last2=Collon |first2=P. |last3=Friedmann |first3=H. |last4=Golser |first4=R. |last5=Hille |first5=P. |last6=Priller |first6=A. |last7=Rom |first7=W. |last8=Steier |first8=P. |last9=Tagesen |first9=S. |last10=Wallner |first10=A. |last11=Wild |first11=E. |last12=Winkler |first12=G. |title=VERA: A new AMS facility in Vienna |journal=Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms |date=March 1997 |volume=123 |issue=1-4 |pages=47–50 |doi=10.1016/S0168-583X(96)00782-3 }}</ref> It is operated by the [[University of Vienna]] and is dedicated to [[Accelerator Mass Spectrometry]] (AMS). It started operation in 1995.

The system is a 3-MV [[Pelletron]] type tandem accelerator, designed to accelerate [[protons]] or heavy [[ions]].

==See also==
*[[Accelerator mass spectrometry]]
*[[List of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities]]

==External links==
*[http://isotopenforschung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=1571 The VERA accelerator home page.]
*[http://physics.univie.ac.at/?lang=en The Fakultät für Physik (Faculty of Physics) at the ...] 
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/en Universität Wien (University of Vienna).]

==References==
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[[Category:Particle accelerators]]
[[Category:University of Vienna]]


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