Quantitative radioisotope measurements with the NSF-arizona regional accelerator facility

T. H. Zabel; A. J.T. Jull; D. J. Donahue; P. E. Damon

doi:10.1109/TNS.1983.4332535

Quantitative radioisotope measurements with the NSF-arizona regional accelerator facility

T. H. Zabel, A. J.T. Jull, D. J. Donahue, P. E. Damon

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Results of tests on the tandem accelerator mass spectrometer (TAMS) at the University of Arizona are presented. These results demonstrate: (a) measurements of 14C/13C ratios with precisions of a few percent can be made in a period of one to several hours; (b) measurements with precisions of 0.5% have been made in which the uncertainties were mainly statistical and in which contributions to the uncertainty of machine fluctuations were negligible; (c) precise measurements of the ratio of 14C/13C in samples of N.B.S. oxalic acid and of 1890 wood are consistent with the accepted value of that ratio; (d) the real signal from a 44,000 year old sample is equal to the background rate produced from a dead carbon sample. In addition, results of some measurements on archaeological samples are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1371-1373
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.1983.4332535
State	Published - Apr 1983

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