24502
Author
Farwell, G.W.; Grootes, P.M.; Leach, D.D.; Schmidt, F.H.; Stuiver, Minze
Title Of Article Chaper
Current <sup>14</sup> measurements with the University of Washington FN tandem accelerator
Title Of Journal Book
Radiocarbon
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
711-718
Collation
2 tables, 2 figs., 6 refs.
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
This accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) system shows a one-to-one relationship between sample carbon-14 concentrations determined by AMS and by beta-counting. Measurements of unknown samples against a standard indicate that carbon-14 concentration measurements to better than two percent can be made. For a 30-second data collection interval in a typical run of 100 intervals, the variability of the beam injected into the accelerator is about two percent, that of the machine transmission is about four percent, and counting statistics give 4.7% standard deviation for a sample of 80% of modern carbon. -- AATA
Keywords
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) Dating Beta counter; Dating Radiocarbon University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, USA) AATA
pub_id
24502