New stage of solar-earth environmental studies using the Tandetron Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

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[2016-11-01]

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 A Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometer manufactured by HVE, the Netherlands, was installed at Nagoya University nineteen years ago. Since 1999, the Tandetron has successfully used for a lot of carbon 14 measurements of various materials demanding from a wide range of research fields such as archeology, geology, anthropology and terrestrial as well as solar environmental studies. Now, the Tandetron system with long career has been updated with an air-cooled magnet power supply of high-performance and an advanced vacuum-pumping system to attain more precise and reproducible radiocarbon measurements. The updated Tandetron will play a newly active role in our on-going interdisciplinary research program, basic studies at the Division for Chronological Research, and many joint research projects. We are aiming at further multifaceted studies using cosmogenic nuclides such as beryllium10 and aluminum 26 as well as carbon 14 by a new system in the future.

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