List of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities

The following list of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities includes research centers that employ accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS).

Accelerator mass spectrometry is a form of mass spectrometry that accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis.

Facilities

Africa

• iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Oceania

• 14UD The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• SSAMS The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• ANTARES 10MV, STAR 2MV, Sydney, Australia
• Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory, GNS Science, New Zealand
• Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility, UNSW, Australia.

North America

• Accium BioSciences at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill, Seattle, WA
• André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (AEL AMS) at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada
• Beta Analytic Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility in Miami, Florida
• Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) at University of Georgia.
• DirectAMS (D-AMS) radiocarbon labs in Bothell, WA & Seattle, WA
• Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
• Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
• Institute of Energy and the Environment Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
• MegaSIMS at the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA
• National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) Facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• NSF - Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Laboratory
• Pharmaron ABS, Inc. in Germantown, Maryland
• Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana
• Trace Element Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (TEAMS) at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC
• W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (KCCAMS) Facility at the University of California, Irvine

Asia

• Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi 110067 .
• Xi'an AMS Center, China
• Tandem accelerator for Environmental Research and Radiocarbon Analysis (NIES-TERRA) of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
• BINP AMS Facility, Novosibirsk, Russia
• National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
• Accelerator Unit for Radio isotope Studies (AURiS), Geoscience Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.
• China Institute for Radiation Protection, Taiyuan, China
• Laboratory of AMS Dating and the Environment, Nanjing University, China

Europe

• Lancaster AMS-UK for trace actinides and radiocarbon at Lancaster University, England
• Vilnius Radiocarbon AMS dating laboratory in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Centre for Isotope Research on Cultural and Environmental heritage (CIRCE) https://www.circe.unicampania.it, Mathematics and Physics Department https://www.matfis.unicampania.it, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
• CEREGE in Aix en Provence, France
• LMC14 Laboratoire de mesure du carbone 14, at LSCE, Saclay, France
• LSCE-ECHoMICADAS, at LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
• 14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Bristol Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at University of Bristol, England
• RICH, Royal Institute for Cultural heritage, Brussels, Belgium
• CologneAMS at University of Cologne, Germany
• Hertelendi Laboratory of Environmental Studies at ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
• DREAMS at Dresden, Germany
• Centre for Isotope Research Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
• Beta Analytic Europe in London, England
• Tandem Laboratory at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden
• Lund Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at Lund University, Sweden
• RoAMS Laboratory of the "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Măgurele, Romania
• AMS at the Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratory joint facility of LMU Munich and Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Poznan Radiocarbon Laboratory, Poland
• Centre for Dating and Diagnostics (CEDAD), University of Salento, Italy http://www.cedad.unisalento.it
• Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, CNA University of Sevilla, Spain
• NERC Recognised Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at SUERC, Scotland
• Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator at the University of Vienna, Austria
• Ion Beam Physics Laboratory of the ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
• National 1MV AMS Laboratory, TÜBÄ°TAK Marmara Research Center Turkey
• Nuclear Physics Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Closed Facilities

• Eckert & Ziegler Vitalea Science AMS company based in Davis, California, closed in 2016.

External links

• , compiled by Walter Kutschera (to the best of his knowledge), VERA Lab, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.

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