Instrumental developments at the IBA-AMS dating facility at the University of Lecce

The accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating facility at the University of Lecce, Italy is now fully operational and in the first year of operation more than 500 samples both organic and inorganic have been measured for applications in archaeology, history of art, geology and environmental sciences. The experimental capabilities of the facility have been recently significantly improved by the installation of an in vacuum and in air ion beam analysis (IBA) beam line. Investigations are routinely carried out in material science and cultural heritage diagnostics.