Counting Statistics and Ion Interval Density in AMS

Journal Article · Tue Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2004 · Radiocarbon

OSTI ID:15011633

Vogel, J S; Ognibene, T; Palmblad, M; Reimer, P

Confidence in the precisions of AMS and decay measurements must be comparable for the application of the {sup 14}C calibration to age determinations using both technologies. We confirmed the random nature of the temporal distribution of {sup 14}C ions in an AMS spectrometer for a number of sample counting rates and properties of the sputtering process. The temporal distribution of ion counts was also measured to confirm the applicability of traditional counting statistics.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 15011633
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JRNL-205892; TRN: US200507%%596
• Journal Information: Radiocarbon, Vol. 46, Issue 3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CALIBRATION
COUNTING RATES
DECAY
DISTRIBUTION
SPECTROMETERS
SPUTTERING
STATISTICS