Radioisotope Dating with an Accelerator: A Blind Measurement

• DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4353.347
• Publication Date: 2006-10-05T16:35:25Z
• Authors: Richard A. Muller; Edward J. Stephenson; Terry S. Mast
• Keywords: Accelerator mass spectrometry; Carbon fibers

The age of a sample carbon dioxide has been determined by accelerating the with cyclotron and detecting carbon-14 ions in beam. Nitrogen-14 was eliminated as background through use range-separation technique. To avoid all possibility experimenter bias, measurement conducted blind fashion.