Physics & Astronomy

M.L. Roberts, B.E. Rosenheim, K.F. von Reden, K.L. Elder, P. Long, B.E. Longworth, J. Burton, and E. Galutschek.

National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

The National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has constructed a new compact ^14C AMS system. In addition to a 134-sample National Electrostatics Corporation MC-SNICS ion source, the system will utilize a microwave gas ion source (discussed at SNEAP 2004) for the analysis of 14C in a continuously flowing stream of carrier gas. Early operational experience of the system will be discussed.