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The Antares AMS Centre: A Status Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Claudio Tuniz
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
David Fink
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Michael Hotchkis
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Geraldine Jacobsen
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Ewan Lawson
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Andrew Smith
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Quan Hua
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Peter Drewer
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Peter Lee
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Vladimir Levchenko
Affiliation:
Post Doctoral Fellow, National Greenhouse Advisory Committee grant (CSIRO, ANU, ANSTO)
Roger Bird
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
John Boldeman
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Private Mail Bag 1, Menai, NSW 2234 Australia
Mike Barbetti
Affiliation:
The NWG Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating, Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
Gillian Taylor
Affiliation:
The NWG Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating, Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
John Head
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
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Abstract

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The ANTARES accelerator mass spectrometry facility at Lucas Heights Research Laboratory is operational and AMS measurements of 14C, 26Al and 36Cl are being carried out routinely. Measurement of 129I recently commenced and capabilities for other long-lived radioisotopes such as 10Be are being established. The overall aim of the facility is to develop advanced programs in Quaternary science, global climate change, biomedicine and nuclear safeguards.

Type
V. Advances in Measurement Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © the Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona 

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