[local physicists] REMINDER: Colloquium Announcement 9/4/2012 ( Dr. Zheng-Tian Lu) Please Note Change of Location

[Malin, Delicia M.]

Old Dominion University
Department of Physics

Fall Colloquium Series

Tuesday September 4, 2012

"Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater"


Dr. Zheng-Tian Lu
Argonne National Laboratory



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 The long-lived noble-gas isotope 81Kr is the ideal tracer for old water and ice in the age range of 10^5 - 10^6 years, a range beyond the reach of 14C. 81Kr-dating, a concept pursued over the past four decades by numerous laboratories employing a variety of techniques, is now available for the first time to the geoscience community at large. This is made possible by the development of an atom counter based on the Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) method, in which individual atoms of the desired isotope are selectively captured and detected with a laser-based atom trap. ATTA possesses superior selectivity, and is thus far used to analyze the environmental radioactive isotopes 81Kr, 85Kr, and 39Ar, These three isotopes have extremely low isotopic abundances in the range of 10^-16 to 10^-11, and cover a wide range of ages and applications.  In collaboration with geoscientists, we are dating groundwater and mapping its flow in major aquifers around the world.
This work is supported by DOE, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357; and by NSF, Division of Earth Sciences, under award EAR-0651161.

Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm
Refreshments: Atrium @ 2:30 pm

More details at http://sci.odu.edu/physics/
All are Welcome!




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