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The Application of ICELS Systems for Radiocarbon Dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Konrad Tudyka ,
Anna Pazdur ,
Páll Theodórsson ,
Adam Michczyński  and
Jacek Pawlyta
Konrad Tudyka*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Radioisotopes, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
Anna Pazdur
Affiliation:
Dept. of Radioisotopes, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
Páll Theodórsson
Affiliation:
Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 3, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Adam Michczyński
Affiliation:
Dept. of Radioisotopes, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
Jacek Pawlyta
Affiliation:
Dept. of Radioisotopes, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
*
Corresponding author. Email: konrad.tudyka@polsl.pl.
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Liquid scintillation counting (LSC) for radiocarbon dating is a less expensive method than accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), provides a high degree of accuracy, and is less prone to contamination due to the larger sample sizes. However, to obtain high precision, a long counting time is needed. The Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory is seeking to obtain an increased counting capacity with 2–3 mL benzene samples than we presently can achieve with our 2 Quantulus systems. We are therefore investigating the possibility of using a simple, single-phototube LS system (ICELS) for dating samples younger than 5000 yr. We present the first results of this investigation, including the measurement of 3 VIRI and 3 FIRI intercomparison samples.

Type
Methods and Developments
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , 2010 , pp. 1661 - 1666
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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