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Operation of the NSF-Arizona Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis and Results from Selected Collaborative Research Projects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

T W Linick ,
A J T Jull ,
L J Toolin  and
D J Donahue
T W Linick
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
A J T Jull
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
L J Toolin
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
D J Donahue
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Radiocarbon dating at the Arizona accelerator facility has improved substantially in the last three years. Since starting to use graphite targets (see Jull et al, 1986), we have been able to obtain routinely a precision of ca ± 1% (ca 80 yr) for relatively modern material. Our routine technique of tuning and operating the tandem accelerator mass spectrometer (TAMS) and our method of calculating 14C results are discussed in detail. Data on activity ratios of oxalic acid-II/oxalic-I are presented. Examples of the wide variety of projects on which we have collaborated are given. Brief discussions of three such projects are presented for our colleagues who were unable to attend this conference: an Arizona Indian archaeologic project, a study of megafaunal extinctions, and a study of the growth of phosphorite nodules on the sea floor off the Peruvian coast.

Type
IV. Methods and Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 522 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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