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 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) [1], Mathematics and Physics Department [2], 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 [3] 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, TÜBİTAK 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 AMS Facilities of the World at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 March 2016), compiled by Walter Kutschera (to the best of his knowledge), VERA Lab, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.
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