Recently the construction of the ANSTO High Energy Heavy Ion Microprobe (HI
MP) at the 10 MV ANTARES tandem accelerator has been completed. The high en
ergy heavy ion microprobe focuses not only light ions at energies of 2-3 Me
V, but is also capable of focusing heavy ions at high energies with ME/q(2)
values up to 150 MeV amu and greater. First performance tests and results
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