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Radioisotope Dating with the ETHZ-EN-Tandem Accelerator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Willy Woelfli ,
Georges Bonani ,
Martin Suter ,
Richard Balzer ,
Marzio Nessi ,
Christian Stoller ,
Juerg Beer ,
Hans Oeschger  and
Michel Andrée
Willy Woelfli
Affiliation:
Laboratorium für Kernphysik, Eidgenössische Technische, Hochschule, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Georges Bonani
Affiliation:
Laboratorium für Kernphysik, Eidgenössische Technische, Hochschule, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Martin Suter
Affiliation:
Laboratorium für Kernphysik, Eidgenössische Technische, Hochschule, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Richard Balzer
Affiliation:
Laboratorium für Kernphysik, Eidgenössische Technische, Hochschule, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Marzio Nessi
Affiliation:
Laboratorium für Kernphysik, Eidgenössische Technische, Hochschule, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Christian Stoller
Affiliation:
Laboratorium für Kernphysik, Eidgenössische Technische, Hochschule, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Juerg Beer
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, CH-3012 BERN, Switzerland
Hans Oeschger
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, CH-3012 BERN, Switzerland
Michel Andrée
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, CH-3012 BERN, Switzerland
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During the last three years the ETH-EN-tandem accelerator facility has been adapted for the quantitative determination of the rare isotopes 14C and 10Be in mg samples. The goal of this project is to routinely achieve a 1% accuracy when measuring 14C/12C ratios with a minimum expenditure of human resources and beam time. The concept is similar to that proposed by Purser and Henley (1978). The early evolution of this dating facility was described previously (Suter et al, 1981a,b). This paper is a brief report on the current status of the system and its development.

Type
VIII. Technical Aspects of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 25 , Issue 2: 11th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1983 , pp. 745 - 753
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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