Radiocarbon dating with the Uppsala tandem accelerator

Authors

• Göran Possnert

Abstract

Since 1981 the Uppsala tandem accelerator system has been developed to be used in ultra sensitive mass spectrometry, where radiocarbon dating is one of the most interesting applications. At present (November 1984) the improvements of the accelerator have reached a level where samples of milligram sizes can be dated with an accuracy of 1-2 % within a measuring time of about one hour.