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RADIOCARBON AND TRITIUM MEASUREMENTS AT THE GXNU-AMS FACILITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2023

Hongtao Shen*
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technology, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Dingxiong Chen
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Junsen Tang
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technology, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Guofeng Zhang
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Li Wang
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Linjie Qi
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Kaiyong Wu
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Xinyi Han
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
He Ouyang
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Ning Wang
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technology, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Xiaojun Sun
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technology, Guilin Guangxi 541004, China
Ming He
Affiliation:
China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, China
Kimikazu Sasa
Affiliation:
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
Shan Jiang
Affiliation:
China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, China
*
*Corresponding author. Email: shenht@gxnu.edu.cn

Abstract

A single-stage accelerator mass spectrometer (GXNU-AMS) developed for radiocarbon and tritium measurements was installed and commissioned at Guangxi Normal University in 2017. After several years of operational and methodological upgrades, its performance has been continuously improved and applied in multidisciplinary fields. Currently, the measurement sensitivity for radiocarbon and tritium is 14C/12C ∼ (3.14 ± 0.05) ×10–15 and 3H/1H ∼ (1.23 ± 0.17)×10–16, respectively, and the measurement accuracy is ∼0.6%, which can meet the measurement requirements in the nuclear, earth, environmental and life science fields. This study presents the performance characteristics of GXNU-AMS and several interesting application studies.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona

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Footnotes

Selected Papers from the 24th Radiocarbon and 10th Radiocarbon & Archaeology International Conferences, Zurich, Switzerland, 11–16 Sept. 2022

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