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Sample Throughput and Data Quality at the Leibniz-Labor AMS Facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

M.-J. Nadeau ,
P. M. Grootes ,
Markus Schleicher ,
Peter Hasselberg ,
Anke Rieck  and
Malte Bitterling
M.-J. Nadeau
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Max-Eyth Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
P. M. Grootes
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Max-Eyth Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Markus Schleicher
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Max-Eyth Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Peter Hasselberg
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Max-Eyth Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Anke Rieck
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Max-Eyth Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Malte Bitterling
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Max-Eyth Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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Since our first report on the performance of the Kiel accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) system and our early work on sample preparation, systems have been built to improve the sample quality and throughput of the laboratory. Minor modifications were also made on the AMS system, mainly in order to reduce the amount of work and time needed to maintain the system in optimal condition. The design and performance of a 20-port reduction system, a pneumatic target press, and a remote alarm unit for the AMS system are discussed, along with an overview of the results obtained during the last year and the procedure used to obtain them. Statistical analysis shows that the contribution of the AMS system to the measuring uncertainty at our current level (0.3% for a modern sample) is negligible.

Type
Part 1: Methods
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 1: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference 16-20,1997 Groningen , 1997 , pp. 239 - 245
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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