ATTA laboratory for Ar-39 dating

Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Markus Oberthaler
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Im Neuenheimer Feld 227
69120 Heidelberg
Phone +49 6221 54-5170
markus.oberthaler@kip.uni-heidelberg.de

Homepage

http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/matterwaveoptics/research/atta/

Equipment

Atom optical facility for Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA)

Method

Dating of water samples using Ar-39

Important 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.