The following list of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities includes research centers that employ accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Accelerator mass spectrometry is a form of mass spectrometry that accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis.

Facilities

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Africa

* iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences
www.tlabs.ac.za
, Johannesburg, South Africa

Oceania

* 14UD The Australian National University

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Canberra Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...

, Australia * SSAMS The Australian National University

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, Australia * ANTARES 10MV, STAR 2MV

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Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, Australia * Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory

, GNS Science, New Zealand * Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility

, UNSW, Australia.

North America

Accium BioSciences
at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill, Seattle, WA *

André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory The André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory is an accelerator mass spectrometry research facility at the University of Ottawa in Canada. It is currently the only facility of its type in Canada. It is named after former University ...

(AEL AMS) at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada http://www.ams.uottawa.ca/
Beta Analytic Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
in Miami, Florida * Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) at the

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

Center for Applied Isotope Studies
(CAIS) at University of Georgia.
DirectAMS
(D-AMS) radiocarbon labs in Bothell, WA & Seattle, WA
Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Institutes of Energy and the Environment Radiocarbon Laboratory
at the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

, University Park, Pennsylvania * MegaSIMS at the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA
National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
(NOSAMS) Facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * NSF - Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Laboratory
Pharmaron ABS, Inc.
in Germantown, Maryland
Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory
at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana * Trace Element Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (TEAMS) at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC
W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (KCCAMS) Facility
at the University of California, Irvine

Asia

* Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi 110067 . http://www.iuac.res.in/ * Xi'an AMS Center * Tandem accelerator for Environmental Research and Radiocarbon Analysis (NIES-TERRA) of the

National Institute for Environmental Studies The National Institute for Environmental Studies (''NIES'':国立環境研究所, Kokuritsu-Kankyō kenkyūsho) was established in 1974 as a focal point for environmental research in Japan. In 2001 it became an Independent Administrative Institu ...

(NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
BINP AMS Facility

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...

, Russia * National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C * Accelerator Unit for Radio''i''sotope Studies (AUR''i''S), Geoscience Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. https://www.prl.res.in/prl-eng/division/pgdn

Europe

Vilnius Radiocarbon AMS dating laboratory
in Vilnius, Lithuania
Centre for Isotopic Research on Cultural and Environmental heritage (CIRCE)Mathematics and Physics Department
Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy * CEREGE in Aix en Provence, France * LMC1
Laboratoire de mesure du carbone 14
at

LSCE The (LSCE, Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory) is a laboratory for the study of climate and in particular climate change. It is part of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, and located on campuses in L'Orme des Merisiers and Gif sur Yve ...

, Saclay, France * LSCE-ECHoMICADA

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, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

at University of Bristol, England
RICH, Royal Institute for Cultural heritage
Brussels, Belgium
CologneAMS
at University of Cologne, Germany
Hertelendi Laboratory of Environmental Studies
at ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
DREAMS
at Dresden, Germany
Centre for Isotope Research

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

, The Netherlands
Beta Analytic Europe
in London, England * Tandem Laboratory at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden * Lund Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at Lund University, Sweden

RoAMS Laboratory of the "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Măgurele, Romania
AMS at the Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratory
joint facility of

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

and Technical University of Munich, Germany
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
POZNAN RADIOCARBON LABORATORY
Poland * Centre for Dating and Diagnostics (CEDAD), University of Salento, Ital

Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, CNA University of Sevilla, Spain
NERC Recognised Accelerator Mass Spectrometer
at SUERC, Scotland * Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator at the University of Vienna, Austria * Ion Beam Physics Laboratory of the

ETH Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland *National 1MV AMS Laboratory, TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center Turkey

Nuclear Physics Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic https://ydbe.mam.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/ams-hizlandirilmis-kutle-spektroskopisi-laboratuvari

Closed Facilities

* Eckert & Ziegler Vitalea Science AMS company based in Davis, California, closed in 2016.

External links

C-14 Information and Labs (radiocarbon.org)

University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ.
AMS Facilities of the World
compiled by Walter Kutschera (to the best of his knowledge), VERA Lab, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria. Mass spectronomy