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 ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al with all the modern facilities has also been developed for the chemical processing of samples. ¹⁰Be measurements on sediment samples, inter laboratory comparison results and ²⁶Al measurements on standard samples are presented in this paper. In addition to the ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al AMS facilities, a new ¹⁴C AMS facility based on a dedicated 500 kV tandem ion accelerator with two cesium sputter ion sources, is also being setup at IUAC.