加速器质谱( accelerator mass spectrometry, AMS)是基于加速器和离子探测器的一种高能质谱,属于一种同位素质谱( mass spectroscopy, MS),它克服了传统MS存在的分子本底和同量异位素本底干扰,因此同位素丰度灵敏度很高,对14 C( T1/2=5730 a)、10 Be( T1/2=1.5×106 a)和36 Cl( T1/2=3.0×105 a)等核素测量的丰度灵敏度均达10-15(传统MS的同位素丰度灵敏度最高为10-8).因此, AMS具有极其广泛的应用前景.简述AMS原理、技术和发展现状,介绍中国原子能科学研究院的AMS技术,及该技术在核科学与技术中的应用研究进展,包括长寿命核素半衰期的测量(如79 Se ),核反应微小截面的测量(如238U(n,3n)236U),长寿命谷区裂变产物核测量以及129I的AMS测量作为核设施监测、核环境与核应急检测的新方法等.
Belonging to the category of isotope mass spectrometry ( MS) , accelerator mass spectrometry ( AMS) is a high-energy mass spectrometry based on accelerators and ion detectors. AMS overcomes the molecular and isobaric background interferences extant in conventional MS, and therefore has an extremely high isotopic abundance sensitivity, which reaches 10 -15 ( isotopic abundance sensitivity of conventional MS is 10 -8 at highest) for measure-ment of nuclides such as 14 C( T1/2 =5 730 a) , 10 Be( T1/2 =1. 5 × 106 a) and 36 Cl( T1/2 =3. 0 × 105 a) . Accordingly, AMS has extremely broad application prospects. This paper introduces the principle, technique and development sta-tus of AMS and focuses on the introduction of CIAE’s AMS technique and research advances in its application in nu-clear science and technology, such as studies on measurements of the half-life of long-lived nuclides(79Se), small nuclear reaction cross sections(238U(n,3n)236U) and long-lived fission product n