ATTA Prepartion Laboratory

Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach-Hertig
Institute of Environmental Physics
Im Neuenheimer Feld 229
69120 Heidelberg
Phone +49 6221 54-6331
aeschbach@iup.uni-heidelberg.de
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Equipment

Membrane contactor for water degassing in the field

Ar separation line based on getters

Gas-Chromatographic Gas Separation Line

Method

Preparation of water samples for the measurement of ³⁹Ar using Atomic Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA)

Key Publications

Ritterbusch, F., S. Ebser, J. Welte, T. Reichel, A. Kersting, R. Purtschert, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, M. K. Oberthaler, 2014. Groundwater dating with Atom Trap Trace Analysis of 39Ar. Geophys. Res. Lett. 41: 6758-6764, doi:10.1002/2014GL061120.