Performance of Home-Made Single-Stage 14C AMS System at CIAE

ABSTRACT The second home-made single stage accelerator mass spectrometer (SSAMS) system dedicated to radiocarbon ( 14 C) measurements was built after the first SSAMS system was moved to Guangxi Normal University. With some improvements to the second SSAMS system, the performance has been improved. With the conditions of total ion energy of 200KeV, ions charge states of 1+ and helium as stripper gas, 14 C measurements with precision of 0.5% and a background level of 0.5 pMC were achieved. Details of the system and the experimental performance are given here.