The AMS facility at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan

A new AMS system based on a 5 MV tandem accelerator has been installed at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). This system, NIES-TERRA (Tandem accelerator for Environmental Research and Radiocarbon Analysis), is used primarily to investigate the environmental carbon cycle by mean...

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Published inNuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms Vol. 123; no. 1-4; pp. 31 - 33
Main Authors Kume, Hiroshi, Shibata, Yasuyuki, Tanaka, Atsushi, Yoneda, Minoru, Kumamoto, Yuichiro, Uehiro, Takashi, Morita, Masatoshi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.03.1997
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Summary:A new AMS system based on a 5 MV tandem accelerator has been installed at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). This system, NIES-TERRA (Tandem accelerator for Environmental Research and Radiocarbon Analysis), is used primarily to investigate the environmental carbon cycle by means of high precision 14C dating. Our research program is also directed towards the use of 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, 41Ca, and 129I, both as tracers and chronometers. The details of the system design are presented here. The whole AMS system is presently undergoing performance tests.
ISSN:0168-583X
1872-9584
DOI:10.1016/S0168-583X(96)00632-5