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Status Report on the Sample Preparation Laboratory for Radiocarbon Dating at the New Bucharest Roams Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2018

Tiberiu B Sava ,
Corina A Simion ,
Oana Gâza ,
Iuliana M Stanciu ,
Doru G Păceșilă ,
Gabriela O Sava ,
Lukas Wacker ,
Bianca Ștefan ,
Vasile D Moșu  and
Dan G Ghiță
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Tiberiu B Sava*
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Corina A Simion
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Oana Gâza
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Iuliana M Stanciu
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Doru G Păceșilă
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Gabriela O Sava
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Lukas Wacker
Affiliation:
Labor für Ionenstrahlphysik, ETH Zürich Otto Stern Weg 5, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
Bianca Ștefan
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Vasile D Moșu
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Dan G Ghiță
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
Alexandru Vasiliu
Affiliation:
RoAMS Laboratory, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Reactorului 30, 077125, Măgurele-Bucharest, Romania
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*Corresponding author. Email: tiberiu.sava@nipne.ro.
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Abstract

The accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) center at Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, is based on the latest-generation 1 MV Tandetron® accelerator, produced by High Voltage Engineering Europa (HVEE), The Netherlands. The AMS center became fully functional at the start of 2013, and at the end of 2015 the laboratory established the RoAMS international code and it was added to the list of AMS laboratories maintained by Radiocarbon journal. An important aspect in the establishment of a new AMS laboratory is the declaration and documentation of the adopted protocols and to demonstrate the reliability and reproducibility of the measurements in comparison to internationally recognized reference materials. In this paper, we present the dating results on the Sixth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison (SIRI) samples that were pretreated, graphitized, and measured in our laboratory. The newly developed sample preparation laboratory can handle sample materials as (1) organic materials, (2) wood, (3) bones, and (4) carbonates. The results of our measurements are in very good agreement with the SIRI consensus values and confirm the reliability of our sample preparation laboratory and also the good performance of the HVEE AMS system. The blank levels for the SIRI materials are 0.277±0.045/0.333±0.046 percent modern carbon (pMC) for wood samples, 0.441±0.038 pMC for bone collagen, and 0.239±0.030 pMC for carbonate materials, considering an average mass of 1 mg sample graphite.

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radiocarbon sample preparationRomanian AMS centerstatus report

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Radiocarbon , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 649 - 658
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© 2018 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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