André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory

The André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory is a accelerator mass spectrometry research facility at the University of Ottawa in Canada. It is currently the only AMS facility in Canada. The facility is named after former uOttawa Faculty of Science dean André E. Lalonde, who died of cancer in 2012.

History

The facility was created by 2014, with funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. It is located in uOttawa's Advanced Research Complex (ARC). It replaced the IsoTrace facility at the University of Toronto. It cost around 10 million dollars.[1]

In 2017, the AEL AMS will host the 14th annual AMS conference.

Equipment

The facility has a custom-made 3 mega-volt tandem accelerator mass spectrometer.[2] It also has a 200 sample ion source, a high resolution, 120° injection magnet, a 90° high energy analysis magnet (mass-energy product 350 MeV-AMU), a 65°, 1.7 m radius electric analyzer and a 2 channel gas ionization detector.[3] The AMS weighs around 44 tons and is around 25 metres long.[1] The facility can be seen through a two-storey window in the lobby of the ARC.[4]

The AMS accelerates the isoptopes to a very high speed with almost no contamination, thus allowing for the detection of trace isotopes at very low levels.

Personnel

The executive committee of the AEL AMS is composed of three uOttawa professors: William Kieser, Ian Clark and Jack Cornett.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Rushton, Sean (Summer 2014). "Atomic Tour de Force" (PDF). Research Perspectives. University of Ottawa. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "AEL AMS Laboratory". uottawa.ca. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "The André E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory – The new accelerator mass spectrometry facility at the University of Ottawa". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 361: 110–114. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2015.03.014. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "The University of Ottawa opens its Advanced Research Complex, a powerhouse of photonics and Earth science research". innovation.ca. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

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