Status of the Berkeley small cyclotron AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) project
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: 4. international symposium on accelerator mass spectrometry, Ontario, Canada, 27 Apr 1987
- Subject
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS CYCLOTRONS
DESIGN
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
BEAM INJECTION
CARBON 14
CARBON 14 BEAMS
PERFORMANCE
ACCELERATORS
BEAMS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CARBON ISOTOPES
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
ION BEAMS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
NUCLEI
RADIOISOTOPES
SPECTROSCOPY
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES 430100* -- Particle Accelerators-- Design, Development, & Operation
- Language
- English
A small, low-energy cyclotron has been designed and built at Berkeley for direct detection dating of /sup 14/C. The system combines the use of a negative ion source to reject /sup 14/N with the high resolution of a cyclotron to reject other background ions. In order to allow the dating of old and small samples, the present system incorporates a high-current external ion source and injection beamline. The system is expected to be operational by mid-1987.