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title: "Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator"
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The Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, VERA, is a particle accelerator. 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 ==
The VERA accelerator home page.
The Fakultät für Physik (Faculty of Physics) at the ...
Universität Wien (University of Vienna).


== References ==