An interface for the direct coupling of small liquid samples to AMS

T. J. Ognibene; A. T. Thomas; P. F. Daley; G. Bench; Ken W Turteltaub

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2015.05.018

An interface for the direct coupling of small liquid samples to AMS

T. J. Ognibene, A. T. Thomas, P. F. Daley, G. Bench, Ken W Turteltaub

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Abstract

We describe the moving wire interface attached to the 1-MV AMS system at LLNL's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for the analysis of nonvolatile liquid samples as either discrete drops or from the direct output of biochemical separatory instrumentation, such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Discrete samples containing at least a few 10 s of nanograms of carbon and as little as 50 zmol ¹⁴C can be measured with a 3-5% precision in a few minutes. The dynamic range of our system spans approximately 3 orders in magnitude. Sample to sample memory is minimized by the use of fresh targets for each discrete sample or by minimizing the amount of carbon present in a peak generated by an HPLC containing a significant amount of ¹⁴C. Liquid sample AMS provides a new technology to expand our biomedical AMS program by enabling the capability to measure low-level biochemicals in extremely small samples that would otherwise be inaccessible.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	173-177
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume	361
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2015.05.018
State	Published - Oct 15 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

C
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
CO
HPLC interfaces

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Instrumentation
Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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