The 12CH22+ molecule and radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry

H. W. Lee, A. Galindo-Uribarri, K. H. Chang, L. R. Kilius, A. E. Litherland

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Abstract

The 12CH22+ molecule has been studied and it was found that the molecule can be effectively eliminated thus allowing detection of 14C2+ at low terminal voltages of a tandem accelerator. Some implications of this discovery for radiocarbon dating are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)208-210
Number of pages3
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1984

Funding

sioning the apparatus and our colleagues at the Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory, Rochester, USA for their assistance in the 1977 discovery of the 12CH:’ molecule. This work was supported in part by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. One of us (U.G.-U.) acknowledgess upport from WUSC (Canada) and ININ (Mexico).

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