The Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (LEMA by its name in Spanish) of the Institute of Physics, is a National Laboratory where we carry out basic, applied and interdisciplinary research projects based on the determination of very low concentrations of radionuclides such as 14C, 10Be, 26Al, 129I and Pu.
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The Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (LEMA) is a facility of the Institute of Physics at UNAM (IF-UNAM). It was created after a group of researchers from the Department of Experimental Physics led by Dr. Corina Solis, Dr. Efrain Chavez and Dr. Maria Esther Ortiz submitted a project for financing to the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in 2009.
LEMA includes three laboratories for sample preparation and a hall with the AMS system based in a 1 MV accelerator, manufactured by High Voltage Engineering Europe. The accelerator and the two mass spectrometers, which make up the Isotopic Separator, heart of the LEMA, arrived at the end of February 2013 and its mechanical installation concluded at the end of March, the acceptance tests for the measurements according to the specifications contracted for the isotopes of: 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 129I and 239,240,242Pu, were successfully concluded at the beginning of June 2013.
Legal Nature
The Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory is part of the facilities of the Institute of Physics which is an academic unit of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in accordance with Article 9 of the Statute General of the UNAM.
Location
LEMA is located inside the Institute of Physics in the Exterior Circuit of the University Campus UNAM in Mexico City.