The Xi’an accelerator mass spectrometer is an advanced scientific facility for precise analysis of long-lived radioactive nuclides. It possesses the advantage of ultra-high abundance sensitivities, requires only minuscule quantities of sample material and performs rapid measurements. The system performance and technical specification are among the most advanced. It is capable of making 14C measurement at 0.3% precision or better. Its detection limit for 10Be and 129I is at the level of 10-15 and 10-14 respectively. This spectrometer, in its present form, is already capable of making high quality measurement of the four nuclides, 10Be, 14C, 26Al and 129I. These are used in the majority of AMS applications. Its functionality can be further expanded to include several other nuclides such as 41Ca, which also have important applications. It will serve the basic research in the fields of geology, environment, archaeology, oceanography, atmosphere, nuclear safeguard, biomedicine and pharmaceutics, etc.
Director: Zhou Weijian
Vice Director: Liu Weiguo
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