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Using a Gas Ion Source for Radiocarbon AMS and GC-AMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Christopher Bronk Ramsey ,
Peter Ditchfield  and
Martin Humm
Christopher Bronk Ramsey*
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Peter Ditchfield
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Martin Humm
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
*
Corresponding author. Email: christopher.ramsey@archaeology-research.oxford.ac.uk.
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This paper reports on the performance of a new method of sample injection using the High Voltage Engineering Europa (HVEE) SO-110 ion source jointly developed between HVEE and Oxford. In order to use this source, we have developed a new gas handling system which works on the direct injection of carbon dioxide mixed into a continuous flow of helium. Preliminary work has also been carried out on online gas chromatography-accelerator mass spectrometry (GC-AMS). In this application, a GC is directly coupled to the AMS system using a GC-IRMS combustion interface and Nafion™ drier. We show here results for the measurement of natural abundance in separated compounds with good peak separation and precisions of about 10%. This type of system should be ideal for source apportionment studies, biomedical, and other similar work where high precision is not required but where sample sizes are very low.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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