A new AMS facility at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi

Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), a national facility of government of India, is having a 15UD Pelletron accelerator for multidisciplinary ion beam based research programs. Recently, a new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) facility has been developed after incorporating many changes in the existing 15UD Pelletron accelerator. A clean chemistry laboratory for Be-10 and Al-26 with all the modern facilities has also been developed for the chemical processing of samples. Be-10 measurements on sediment samples, inter laboratory comparison results and Al-26 measurements on standard samples are presented in this paper. In addition to the 10Be and Al-26 AMS facilities, a new C-14 AMS facility based on a dedicated 500 kV tandem ion accelerator with two cesium sputter ion sources, is also being setup at IUAC. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.