Universität Wien - Fakultät für Physik - Isotopenforschung

Peter STEIER For contact information click here

Research interests:

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique:

Very heavy ions (actinides); Time-of-flight Detectors; Energy loss and straggling; Isobar identification;

Applications:

Nucleosynthesis; Supernovae; ²⁴⁴Pu; natural occurring ²³⁶U; Isotopic signatures in Geology; ¹²⁹I.

¹⁴C:

Dating for Archaeology; Application of Bayesian statistics to calibration.

General particle accelerator technique:

implementation of algorithms from numerical mathematics and control technology for automated machine tuning; Automation of measurements; Ion optics and beam diagnostics, simulation software.

Materials for my lectures

• Spurenisotope in Umwelt und Technik I, WS 2008/9
• Spurenisotope in Umwelt und Technik II, SS 2009
• Spurenisotope in Umwelt und Technik I, WS 2009/10

Some preprints:

Developments towards a fully automated AMS system

New methods and critical aspects in Bayesian mathematics for ¹⁴C calibration

The use of the Bayesian statistics for ¹⁴C dates of chronologically orderd sampels: A critical analysis

Heavy ion AMS with a "small" accelerator

VERA, an AMS facility for "all" isotopes

Opportunities and Limits of AMS with 3-MV Tandem Accelerators

Radiocarbon determination of particulate organic carbon in non-temperated, Alpine glacier ice

Career:

Childhood and school in Traun, Oberösterreich

[1985 – 1995] Diploma of physics at the University of Vienna

Free lance  programmer at various software firms

Diploma thesis in nuclear physics with the theme "Messungen der inelastischen doppeltdifferentiellen
Neutronenemissionsquerschnitte von Blei mit 14-MeV-Neutronen". Master of Science in October of 1995

[1995 - 2000]
Dissertation in nuclears physics supervised by  Prof. W. Kutschera with the theme "Exploring the limits of VERA: A universal facility for accelerator mass spectrometry" (see also the Errata).

Assistant at the Institute for Raduim Research (later Isotope Research) and Nuclear Physics at the University of Vienna.

Presentations at international conferences in the USA, Germany, and Austria

[1996- 1997] alternative service at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna

[ December 2001] Doctor of Science 

[since April 2001] Assistant at the Institute for Isotope Research and Nuclear Physics at the University of Vienna 

Collaborator in the Spezialforschungsbereich (SFB) of the FWF (F014) and the VAW under the patronage of the UNESCO , 1998: The Synchronization of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millennium BC
First Speaker: Univ. Prof. Manfred Bietak, Second Speaker: Univ. Prof. Hermann Hunger
Principle investigator of project F 1408: Univ.-Prof. Walter Kutschera, 14C Dating for Absolute Chronology of Eastern Mediterranean Cultures in the Second Millenium BC with AMS.
Co-principle investigator of project F 1408: DDr. Peter Stadler. Collaborators of project F 1408: Dr- Alfred Priller, Dr. Peter Steier, Dr- Eva Maria Wild.

Contractor of EU-Project Contract Nr. EVK2-1999-00316: Influence of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange in a Changing Climate on Atmospheric Transport and Oxidation Capacity (STACCATO), 2000
Coordinator: Dr. Andreas Stohl, Lehrstuhl für Bioklimatologie und Immissionsforschung, TU München, Germany
Contractors: Dr. Alfred. Priller, Mag. Michael Berger, Univ. Prof. Dr. Walter Kutschera, Dr. Peter Steier, Dr. Eva Maria Wild, VERA Laboratory, Universität Wien, Wien Austria, Univ. Prof. Dr. Ilse Steffan, Institut für Analytische Chemie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

Talks at international conferences and laboratories:

Priller A, Steier P, Golser R, Kutschera W, Rom W, Wallner A, Wild E. Hard-VERA and soft-VERA. 31st Symposium of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP), Jülich, Germany, October 13-15, 1997

Steier P, Brandl T, Fischer H, Golser R, Kutschera W, Priller A, Puchegger S, Rom W, Vockenhuber C, Wallner A, Wild E. VERA - the 3-MV Pelletron AMS Facility in Vienna. Fifteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry. Denton, Texas, USA, November 4-7, 1998.

Steier P. The automatic data evaluation system of VERA. Seminar at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Dezember 21, 2000.

P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber. V. Liechtenstein. Heavy ion AMS with a "small" accelerator. Seventh European Conference on Accelerators in Applied Research and Technology (ECAART) , Guildford, UK, August 21-25, 2001.

P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler. VERA, an AMS facility for all isotopes. Held at the 9th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-9) September 9-13, 2002, Nagoya, Japan.

Peter Steier, Alfred Priller. The behaviour of dust-induced parasitic corona discharges in the 3 MV pelletron of VERA. 37th Symposium of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP), Strasbourg, France, Oct. 13 - 16, 2003.

Peter Steier, Andreas Bergmaier, Thomas Faestermann, Robin Golser, Klaus Knie, Gunther Korschinek, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Christof Vockenhuber, Katharina Vorderwinkler, Anton Wallner. Z-Identifikation durch „deltaTOF“ und AMS von ¹⁸²Hf. Seminar des Beschleunigerlabor Garching, 23.Juni 2004, Munich, Germany.

Peter Steier, Franz Dellinger,Walter Kutschera, Eva Wild, Kurt Nicolussi, Peter Schießling. High-precision ¹⁴C AMS measurements for the stone-pine tree-ring chronology between 3500 BC and 3000 BC. Held at "Search for Precision and Accuracy",
SCIEM 2000 Workshop on Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating, 8 – 10 January 2004, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Peter Steier, Robin Golser, Walter Kutschera, Vitaly Liechtenstein, Alfred Priller, Christof Vockenhuber, Anton Wallner. Opportunities and Limits of AMS with 3-MV Tandem Accelerators. Talk at the Seventh European Conference on Accelerators in Applied Research and Technology (ECAART). Paris, France, September 20-24, 2004.

Peter Steier, Roswitha Drosg, Walter Kutschera, Eva Maria Wild, Mariaelena Fedi, Martin Schock, Dietmar Wagenbach. Radiocarbon dating of ice samples from Alpine glaciers. SCIEM 2000 Workshop on Ice Core Dating and Tephra Analysis July, 8-10 2004, University of Vienna, Austria.

Peter Steier. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) - State of the Art. Seminar at the Neutron Physics Unit (NPU), European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurement (IRMM), Geel, Belgium, February 24, 2005.

Peter Steier, Roswitha Drosg, Mariaelena Fedi, Walter Kutschera, Martin Schock, Dietmar Wagenbach, Eva Maria Wild. Radiocarbon determination of particulate organic carbon (POC) in non-temperated, Alpine glacier ice. Held at the 10th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-10), Berkeley, Califonia, USA, September 5-10, 2005.

Peter Steier, Roswitha Drosg, Bernd Kerschner, Walter Kutschera, Mario Schrenk, Eva Maria Wild. Preparation and measurement of small AMS samples at VERA. Held at the 19th Radiocarbon Conference in Oxford, 3rd-7th April 2006.

P. Steier, E. Berdermann, M. Berninger, D. Djokic, R. Golser, V. Liechtenstein, T. Orlowski, M. Pomorski. Spectrometry of heavy ions below 1 MeV/amu with ND and CVDD detectors. Held at the 3rd NoRDHia workshop at the GSI, Darmstadt, Aug. 30 – Sept. 1 2006.

Peter Steier, Robin Golser, Oliver Forstner, Walter Kutschera, Silke Merchel, Alfred Priller, Martin Suter, Christof Vockenhuber, Anton Wallner. ³⁶Cl exposure dating with a 3-MV tandem. Held at the International Workshop at the Xi’an Accelerator Mass Spectrometer, October 23-26, 2006, Xi’an, China.

Peter Steier, Robin Golser, Oliver Forstner, Walter Kutschera, Silke Merchel, Alfred Priller, Martin Suter,Christof Vockenhuber, Anton Wallner. ³⁶Cl exposure dating with a 3-MV tandem. Held at the ESF-IAAMS Workshop "Applications of cosmogenic isotope analysis in earth and environmental sciences”, Nov. 8-11, Wien, Austria

Peter Steier, Max Bichler, L. Keith Fifield, Robin Golser, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Francesca Quinto, Stephan Richter, Michaela Srncik, Philippo Terrasi, Lukas Wacker, Anton Wallner, Gabriele Wallner, Klaus M. Wilcken, Eva Maria Wild. Natural ²³⁶U in environmental samples. Held at the 9th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Technology, Florence, Italy, September 3-7, 2007.

Peter Steier. Automatic AMS measurements and How an accelerator can tune itself. Talk held at the Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Universitá di Napoli Via Vivaldi 43, I-81100 CASERTA, Italy, Aug 31, 2007

Peter Steier, Oliver Forstner, Robin Golser Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Anton Wallner, Eva Maria Wild. VERA - A dedicated facility to measure long-lived radioisotopes with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). Talk held at the AMS Expert Meeting in Cologne, Sept. 20 - 21, 2007, organized by the Institut für Kernphysik, the Geographisches Institut, and the Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie der Universität in Köln.

Peter Steier, Max Bichler, L. Keith Fifield, Robin Golser, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Francesca Quinto, Stephan Richter, Michaela Srncik, Philippo Terrasi, Lukas Wacker, Anton Wallner, Gabriele Wallner, Klaus M. Wilcken, and Eva Maria Wild. Natural and anthropogenic ²³⁶U in environmental samples. Talk at the DPG Frühjahrstagung, Darmstadt, Germany, March 10-14, 2008.

P. Steier, F. Dellinger, O. Forstner, R. Golser1, K. Knie, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, F. Quinto, M. Srncik, F. Terrasi, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner, G. Wallner, E.M. Wild. Analysis and application of heavy isotopes in the environment. Invited talk presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-11), Rome, Italy, September 14-19 2008.

Posters at international conferences:

P. Steier, S. Puchegger, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, A. Wallner, E. Wild Developments towards a fully automated AMS system. Fourteenth International Conference on Ion Beam Analysis / Sixth European Conference on Accelerators in Applied Research and Technology, Dresden, Germany, July 26-30, 1999

Steier P, Rom W. The Use of Bayesian Statistics for Chronologically Ordered Samples: A Critical Analysis Eighth International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Vienna, Austria, Spetember 6-10, 1999

Peter STEIER, Werner ROM, and Stephan PUCHEGGER Critical Aspects of Bayesian Mathematics in ¹⁴C Calibration 17th International Radiocarbon Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, June 18-23, 2000

P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, V. Liechtenstein, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler. First tests with a Natural Diamond Detector (NDD) - a possibly powerful tool for AMS. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Accelrator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-9) September 9-13, 2002, Nagoya, Japan

Peter Steier, Franz Dellinger, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Werner Rom, Eva Maria Wild. Pushing the precision limit of 14C AMS. Held at the 18th Radiocarbon Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 1-5 September 2003

Peter Steier, Robin Golser, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Christof Vockenhuber, Katharina Vorderwinkler, Anton Wallner. AMS of ⁴¹Ca and ³⁶Cl at a 3-MV tandem with a Delta-TOF detector. Presented at the 10th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-10), Berkeley, Califonia, USA, September 5-10, 2005.

P. Steier, O. Forstner, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, S. Merchel, T. Orlowski, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner. ³⁶Cl exposure dating with a 3-MV tandem accelerator. Presented at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 15 - 20 April 2007.

P. Steier, O. Forstner, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, S. Merchel, T. Orlowski, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner. ³⁶Cl exposure dating with a 3-MV tandem AMS facility. Presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-11), Rome, Italy, September 14-19 2008.

Publications:

2009

S. Merchel, M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, L. Benedetti, D.L. Bourlès, R. Braucher, V. Alfimov,.P.H.T. Freeman, P. Steier, A. Wallner. Towards more precise ¹⁰Be and ³⁶Cl data from measurements at the 10^-14 level: Influence of sample preparation. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B (2009), in Press

B. May, D. Wagenbach, S. Hammer, P. Steier, H. Puxbaum, Casimiro Pio. The anthropogenic influence on carbonaceous aerosol in the European background. Tellus (2009) in press.

2008

P. Steier, V.Kh. Liechtensteinb, D. Djokič, R. Golser, A. Wallner, A.G. Alexeev, V.S. Khrunov, W. Kutschera. Characterization and improvement of thin natural diamond detectors for spectrometry of heavy ions below 1 MeV/amu. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 590 (2008) 221-226.

M. Srncik, E. Hrnecek, P. Steier, A. Wallner, G. Wallner, P. Bossew. Vertical distribution of ²³⁸Pu, ^239(40)Pu, ²⁴¹Am, ⁹⁰Sr and ¹³⁷Cs

E.M. Wild, C. Neugebauer-Maresch, T. Einwögerer, P. Stadler, P. Steier, F. Brock. 14C DATING OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC SITE AT KREMS-HUNDSSTEIG IN LOWER AUSTRIA. Radiocarbon 50/1 (2008) 1-10.

O. Forstner, L. Michlmayr, M. Auer, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner. APPLICATIONS OF A COMPACT IONIZATION CHAMBER IN AMS AT ENERGIES BELOW 1 MeV/amu. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 266 (2008) 2213-2216.

P. Milota, I. Reiche, A. Duval, O. Forstner, H. Guicharnaud, W. Kutschera, S. Merchel, A. Priller, M. Schreiner, P. Steier, E. Thobois, A. Wallner, B. Wünschek, R. Golser. PIXE MEASUREMENTS OF RENAISSANCE SILVERPOINT DRAWINGS AT VERA. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 266 (2008) 2279-2285.

O. Forstner, P. Andersson, C. Diehl, R. Golser, D. Hanstorp, W. Kutschera, A. Lindahl, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner. ISOBAR SUPPRESSION IN AMS USING LASER PHOTODETACHMENT. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B (2008) accepted manuscript, DOI 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.05.080.

H. Gnaser, R. Golser, M. Pernpointner, O. Forstner, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner. IDENTIFICATION OF THE SiF62- DIANION BY ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY AND A FULLY RELATIVISTIC COMPUTATION OF ITS PHOTODETACHMENT SPECTRUM. Phys. Rev. A 77 (2008) 053203.

A. Wallner, L. Coquard, I. Dillmann, O. Forstner, R. Golser, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, W. Kutschera, A. Mengoni, M. Paul, A. Priller, P. Steier. MEASUREMENT OF THE STELLAR CROSS SECTIONS FOR THE REACTIONS ⁹Be(n,γ)¹⁰Be and ¹³C(n,γ)¹⁴C via AMS. Journal of Physics G 35 (2008) 014018.

Peter Steier, Max Bichler, L. Keith Fifield, Robin Golser, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Francesca Quinto, Stephan Richter, Michaela Srncik, Philippo Terrasi, Lukas Wacker, Anton Wallner, Gabriele Wallner, Klaus M. Wilcken, Eva Maria Wild. Natural and anthropogenic ²³⁶U in environmental samples. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 266 (2008) 2246-2250.

E. Hrnecek, R. Jakopič, A. Wallner, P. Steier. A combined method for the determination of the isotopic vector of plutonium isotopes in environmental samples. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 276/3 (2008) 789-793.

F. Weninger, P. Steier, W. Kutschera, E.M. Wild. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BAYSIAN METHOD. Proceedings of the SCIEM2000 Workshop 2005, in press

2007

K. M. Wilcken, T.T. Barrows, L.K. Fifield, S.G. Tims, P. Steier. AMS of natural ²³⁶U and ²³⁹Pu produced in uranium ores. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 259 (2007) 727-732.

G. Wallner, P. Steier, Th. Brandl, M.E. Friesacher, P. Hille, W. Kutschera, M. Tatzber, Sh. Ayromlou. DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS THE MEASUREMENT OF I-129 IN LIGNITE. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 714-720

R. Drosg, W. Kutschera, K. Scholz, P. Steier, D. Wagenbach, E. M. Wild. TREATMENT OF SMALL SAMPLES OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON (POC) FOR RADIOCARBON DATING OF ICE. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 340-344

C. Vockenhuber, A. Bergmaier, T. Faestermann, K. Knie, G. Korschinek, W. Kutschera, G. Rugel, P. Steier, K. Vorderwinkler, A. Wallner. DEVELOPMENT OF ISOBAR SEPARATION FOR 182Hf AMS MEASUREMENTS OF ASTROPHYSICAL INTEREST. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 250-255

J. Lukas, A. Priller, P. Steier. A DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED PHASE SPACE MEASUREMENTS OF ION BEAMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 140-143.

A. Priller, M. Auer, R. Golser, A. Herschmann, W. Kutschera, J. Lukas, P. Steier, A. Wallner. ION SOURCE REFINEMENT AT VERA. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 94-99.

F.Weninger, P. Steier, W. Kutschera, E. M. Wild. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BAYESIAN METHOD. Agypt and the Levant – Int. Journal for Egyptian Archaeology and Related Disciplines (2007) 317-324

E. M. Wild, S. Guillen, W. Kutschera, H. Seidler, P. Steier. RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE PERUVIAN CHACHAPOYA/UNKA SITE AT THE LAGUNA DE LOS CONDORES. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 378-383

A. Wallner, M. Bichler, I. Dillmann, R. Golser, F. Käppeler, W. Kutschera, M. Paul, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber. AMS MEASUREMENTS OF 41Ca and 55Fe at VERA – TWO RADIONUCLIDES OF ASTROPHYSICAL INTEREST. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 677-682

R. Golser, H. Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner. EXOTIC NEGATIVE MOLECULES IN AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 259 (2007) 71-75

2006

F.A. Fladerer, Th. Einwogerer, Ch. Frank, G. Fuchs, A. Galik, L.Ch. Maul, P. Steier. DER NEUE MITTELPALÄOLITHISCHE FUNDPLATZ "LURGROTTE-VORHÖHLE" BEI PEGGAU IN DER MITTELSTEIERMARK. Quartär Band 53/54 (2006) 61-96.

E.M. Wild, M. Teschler-Nicola, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, W. Wanek. ¹⁴C DATING OF EARLY UPPER PALAEOLITHIC HUMAN AND ANIMAL REMAINS FROM MLADEC. In: M. Teschler-Nicola, Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate-Mladec Caves and their Remains Springer-Verlag 2006.

A. Wallner, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber. AMS – a powerful tool for probing nucleosynthesis via long-lived radionuclides. The Europ. Phys. J. A 27 (2006) 337-342.

V.Kh. Liechtenstein, T.M. Ivkova, E.D. Olshanski, R. Repnow, P. Steier, W. Kutschera, A. Wallner, R. von Hahn. Preparation and investigation of ultra-thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) foils reinforced with collodion. Nucl. Instr. and. Meth. in Phys. Res. A 561 (2006) 120-123.

Sturt W. Manning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Kutschera, Thomas Higham, Bernd Kromer, Peter Steier, Eva M. Wild. Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700–1400 B.C.. Science 312 (2006) 565-569.

Peter Steier, Roswitha Drosg, Mariaelenea Fedi, Walter Kutschera, Martin Schock, Dietmar Wagenbach, Eva Maria Wild. Radiocarbon determination of particulate organic carbon in non-temperated, Alpine glacier ice. Radiocarbon 48(1) 2006, 69-82 (Abstract).

2005

P. Stadler, S. Draxler, H. Friesinger, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, E. M. Wild. EIN BEITRAG ZUR ABSOLUTCHRONOLOGIE DER LANGOBARDEN AUFGRUND VON ¹⁴C-DATIERUNGEN UND EIN VERSUCH ZUR DATIERUNG DER BERAUBUNG LANGOBARDISCHER GRÄBER. ArchA 87, 2005, 265-278.

J.O. Fernández Niello, A. Priller, A. Arazi, D. Djoki?, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner. A STUDY OF THE TANDEM-TERMINAL-STRIPPER REACTION 1H(12C,?)13N WITH ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 240 (2005), 495-499.

C. Vockenhuber, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner, M. Bichler. ¹⁸²Hf –  FROM GEOPHYSICS TO ASTROPHYSICS. Nucl. Phys. A 758 (2005) 340c-343c.

R. Golser, H. Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner. ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY OF MOLECULAR IONS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 240 (2005), 468-473.

C. Vockenhuber, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, K. Vorderwinkler, A. Wallner. THE ΔTOF DETECTOR FOR ISOBAR SEPARATION AT ION ENERGIES BELOW 1 MeV/amu. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 240 (2005), 490-494.

P. Steier, R. Golser, V. Liechtenstein, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner. OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITS OF AMS WITH 3-MV TANDEM ACCELERATORS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Phys. Rev. B 240 (2005) 445-451 (Abstract)

E.M. Wild, M. Teschler-Nicola, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, E. Trinkhaus, W. Wanek. DIRECT DATING OF EARLY UPPER PALAEOLITHIC HUMAN REMAINS FROM MLADEČ. Nature 435 (2005) 332-335.

R. Golser, H. Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner, M. Čížek, J. Horáček and W. Domcke. EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL EVIDENCE FOR LONG-LIVED MOLECULAR HYDROGEN ANIONS H₂^- AND D₂^-. Physical Review Letters 94  223003(2005)

K Liu, B. Han, Z. Guo, X. Wu, S. Yuan, W. Kutschera, H. Ma, A. Priller, P. Steier, E.M. Wild, Ch. Zhao. AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF BONE SAMPLES FROM THE XINZHAI SITE IN CHINA. Radiocarbon 47/1 (2005) 21-25

A. Wallner, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, H. Vonach, T. Faestermann, K. Knie, G. Korschinek. Potential of AMS for Quantifying Long-Lived Reaction Products. Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 26 September – 1 October 2004. Published in American Institute of Physics Conference Series CP769 (2005) 621-624.

W. Kutschera, P. Steier, E.M. Wild, S. Hiller. RADIOCARBONDATEN BUCH-KAPITEL XVII. In Österreichisch-Bulgarische Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in Karanovo Band IV. 1, herausgegeben von Stefan Hiller und Vassil Nikolov, Phoibos Verlag, ISBN 3-901232-58-3, Wien, 2005, p 421.

2004

E. Hrnecek, P. Steier, A. Wallner. DETERMINATION OF PLUTONIUM IN ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES BY AMS AND ALPHA SPECTROMETRY. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 63 (2005) 633–638.

P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler. VERA, an AMS facility for "all" isotopes. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 223-224 (2004) 67-71 (Abstract)

P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, V. Liechtenstein, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler. First tests with a Natural Diamond Detector (NDD) - a possibly powerful tool for AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 223-224 (2004) 205-208 (Abstract)

A. Priller, M. Berger, H.W. Gäggeler, E. Gerasopoulos, P.W. Kubik, C. Schnabel, L. Tobler, E.-M. Wild, P. Zanis, C. Zerefos. Accelerator mass spectrometry of particle-bound ¹⁰Be. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 223-224 (2004) 601-607 .

C. Vockenhuber, M. Pichler, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, S. Winkler. ¹⁸²Hf, a new isotope for AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 223-224 (2004) 823-828.

S. Winkler, I. Ahmad, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, K.A. Orlandini, M. Paul, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Valenta, C. Vockenhuber. Developing a detection method of environmental ²⁴⁴Pu. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 223-224 (2004) 817-822.

C. Vockenhuber, C. Feldstein, M. Paul, N. Trubnikov, M. Bichler, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, S. Winkler. SEARCH FOR LIVE ¹⁸²Hf IN DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS. New Astronomy Reviews 48 (2004) 161-164.

S. Winkler, I. Ahmad, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, K.A. Orlandini, M. Paul, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber. ANTHROPOGENIC ²⁴⁴Pu IN THE ENVIRONMENT. New Astronomy Reviews 48 (2004) 151-154.

S. Kraft, V. Andrianov. A. Bleile, P. Egelhof, R. Golser, A. Kiseleva, O. Kiselev, W. Kutschera, J.P. Meier, A. Priller, A. Shrivastava, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber. First Application of Calorimetric Low-Energy Detectors in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 520(2004)63-66

V. Kh. Liechtenstein, T.M. Ivkova, E.D. Olshanski, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, R. Repnow, R. von Hahn, M. Friedrich, U. Kreissig. RECENT INVESTIGATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ON THIN DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON (DLC) FOILS. Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A 521 (2004) 197-202

Kh. Liechtenstein, N.V. Eremin, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A.A. Paskhalov, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler. FIRST TESTS OF A THIN NATURAL DIAMOND DETECTOR AS AN ENERGY SPECTROMETER FOR LOW-ENERGY HEAVY IONSV. Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A 521 ( 2004) 203-207.

Peter Steier, Franz Dellinger, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Werner Rom, Eva Maria Wild. Pushing the precision limit of ¹⁴C AMS. Radiocarbon 46 (2004) 5-16. (Abstract)

F. Dellinger, W. Kutschera, K. Nicolussi, P. Schießling, P. Steier, E.M. Wild. A ¹⁴C CALIBRATION WITH AMS FROM 3500 BC TO 3000 BC, DERIVED FROM A NEW HIGH-ELEVATION STONE-PINE TREE-RING CHRONOLOGY. Radiocarbon 46/2 (2004) 969-978

E.M. Wild, P, Stadler, A. Häußler, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, M. Teschler-Nicola, J. Wahl, H.J. Windl. NEOLITHIC MASSACRES: LOCAL SKIRMISHES OR GENERAL WARFARE IN EUROPE? Radiocarbon 46/1 (2004) 337-385.

R. Golser, H. Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber. ANALYSIS OF DOUBLY-CHARGED NEGATIVE MOLECULES BY ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 223-224 (2004) 221-226.

C. Vockenhuber, F. Oberli, M. Bichler, I. Ahmad, G. Quitté, M. Meier, A.N. Halli-day, D.-C. Lee, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, R.J. Gehrke, R.G. Helmer. NEW HALF-LIFE MEASUREMENT OF ¹⁸²Hf: IMPROVED CHRONOMTER FOR THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 172501-1 - 172501-4

2003

Ch. Vockenhuber, I. Ahmad, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, V. Liechtenstein, A. Priller, P. Steier, S. Winkler. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of heavy long-lived radionuclides. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 223-224 (2003) 713-732.

H.-C. Yuan, W. Kutschera, T-Y. Lin, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, E.M. Wild. INVESTIGATION OF A CHINESE INK RUBBING BY ¹⁴C AMS ANALYSIS. Radiocarbon 45/1 (2003) 1-7.

2002

P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, V. Liechtenstein. Heavy ion AMS with a "small" accelerator. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 188(2002)283-287 (Abstract)

Wild EM, Stadler P, Bondar M, Draxler S, Friesinger H, Kutschera W, Priller A, Rom W, Ruttkay E, Steier P. 2001. New chronological frame for the young neolithic Baden culture in Central Europe (4th millenium BC). Radiocarbon 43(2001)1057-1064

A. Priller, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler. Upgrade of the analyzing beam line at the VERA Laboratory. Proceedings of the 35th Symposion of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP), (Eds: R. Hellborg, M. Faarinen, C.E. Magnusson, P. Persson, G. Skog, K. Stenstrom) Lund, Sweden, 22-25 Oct 2002.

S. Winkler, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber. Experimental analysis of the ion optics at the VERA facility. Proceedings of the 35th Symposion of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP), (Eds: R. Hellborg, M. Faarinen, C.E. Magnusson, P. Persson, G. Skog, K. Stenstrom) Lund, Sweden, 22-25 Oct 2002.

Ch. Vockenhuber, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, S. Winkler, V. Liechtenstein. ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY OF HEAVY LONG-LIVED RADIONUCLIDES WITH A 3-MV TANDEM ACCELERATOR. Pramana - journal of physics, Indian Academy of Sciences, 59/6 (2002) 1041-1051.

2001

P. Stadler, S. Draxler, H. Friesinger, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, Wild Eva Maria. ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY FOR EARLY CIVILISATIONS IN AUSTRIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE USING ¹⁴C DATING WITH ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY WITH SPECIAL RESULTS FOR THE ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY OF BADEN CULTURE. Symposion Proceedings Cernavoda III-Boleraz at Mangalia, 2001,541-562.

E.M. Wild, P. Stadler, M. Bondár, S. Draxler, H. Friesinger, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, E. Ruttkay, P. Steier New chronological frame for the young neolithic Baden culture in Central Europe (4th Millennium BC) Radiocarbon 43(2001)1057-1064.

E.M. Wild, M. Paunovic, G. Rabeder, I. Steffan, P. Steier Age determination of fossil bones from the Vindija Neanderthal site in Croatia Radiocarbon 43(2001)1021-1028.

R. Golser, G. Federmann, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber The VERA Heavy Ion Program - Status and Prospects CP576, Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry - Sixteenth Int'l Conf., edited by J.L. Duggan and I.L. Morgan, American Institute of Physics (2001) 627 - 630

Steier P, Rom W, Puchegger S. New methods and critical aspects in Bayesian mathematics for ¹⁴C calibration. Radiocarbon 43/2A(2001)373-380 (Abstract)

Dergachev VA, Gorban AN, Rossiev AA, Kakrimova LM, Kuandykov E, Makarenko NG, Steier P. The filling of gaps in geophysical time series by artificial neural networks. Radiocarbon 43(2001)365-371.

S. Kraft, A. Bleile, P. Egelhof, R. Golser, O. Kisselev, W. Kutschera, V. Liechtenstein, .H. J. Meier, A. Priller, A. Shrivastava, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, M. Weber. Calorimetric low temperature detectors for mass identification of heavy ions.Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 23-27 July 2001, (2002)405-408.

2000

W. Kutschera, R. Golser, A. Priller, W. Rom, P. Steier, E. Wild, M.Arnold, N. Tisnerat-Laborde, G. Possnert, S. Bortenschlager, K. Oeggl Radiocarbon dating of equipment from the Iceman In S. Bortenschlager and K. Oeggl, eds., The Iceman and his Natural Environment. The Man in the Ice“ Vol. 4, Springer Verlag, Wien, (2000) 1-9

M. Lerperger, A.P. McNichol, J. Peden, A.R. Gagnon,  K.L. Elder, W. Kutschera,  W. Rom, P. Steier Oceanic uptake of CO₂ re-estimated through delta¹³C in WOCE samples Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 172 (2000) 501–512

A. Priller, T. Brandl, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, S. Puchegger, W. Rom, P. Steier, Vockenhuber, A. Wallner Extention of the measuring capabilities at VERA Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 172 (2000) 100–106

S. Puchegger, W. Rom, P. Steier Automated evaluation of ¹⁴C AMS measurements. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 172 (2000) 274–280

W. Rom, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, M. Bräunlich, R. Golser, M. Mandl, A. Kaiser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, T. Röckmann, P. Steier A detailed 2-year record of atmospheric ¹⁴CO in the temperate northern hemisphere. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 161-163 (2000) 780–785

W. Rom, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, C. Bronk Ramsey, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, T. Röckmann, P. Steier Methodological aspects of atmospheric ¹⁴CO measurements with AMS Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 172 (2000) 530–536

P. Steier, S. Puchegger, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, A. Wallner, E. Wild Developments towards a fully automated AMS system. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 161-163 (2000) 250 - 254 (Abstract)

P. Steier, W. Rom The use of Bayesian statistics for ¹⁴C dates of chronologically ordered samples: a critical analysis Radiocarbon 42/2  (2000) 183-198 (Abstract)

A. Wallner, Y. Ikeda, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, H. Vonach, E. Wild Precision and accuracy of ²⁶Al measurements at VERA Nucl. Inst. and Meth. B 172(2000)382-387

R. Weissenbök, L. A. Currie, C. Gröllert, W. Kutschera, J. Marolf, A. Priller, H. Puxbaum, W. Rom, P. Steier Accelerator Mass Spectrometry analysis of non-soluble carbon in aerosol particles from high alpine snow (Mt. Sonnblick, Austria) Radiocarbon 42(2000)285-294.

E.M. Wild, K.A. Arlamovsky, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, W. Rom, P. Steier, W. Vycudilik ¹⁴C dating with the bomb peak: An application to forensic medicine Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 172(2000)944-950.

1999

R.C. Garner, T.J. Lightfoot, B.C. Cupid, D. Russel, J.M. Coxhead, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, P. Steier , D.J. Alexander, S.H. Leveson, K.H. Dingley, R.J. Mauthe, K.W. Turteltaub Comparative biotransformation studies of MeIQx and PhIP in animal models and humans
Cancer Letters 143 (1999) 161–165

W. Rom, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, E. Wild AMS ¹⁴C Dating of equipment from the Iceman and of spruce logs from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt Radiocarbon 41/2 (1999) 183–197

Rom W, Kutschera W, Priller A, Steier P, Brenninkmeijer CAM, Bräunlich M, Röckmann Th, Mandl M, Kaiser A. 1999. The "CO-OH-Europe" Project and Measurements of ¹⁴C Monoxide Concentrations in Air from the High-Altitude Observatory Sonnblick (3106 m) in the Austrian Alps. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Jan 6-8, 1999, Tsukuba/Japan and Sakura/Japan: 228-243.

Golser R, Priller A, Rom W, Steier P. 1999. What the stripper gas pressure can tell us about the cooling system. Operation and application of electrostatic accelerators. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Northeastern Personnel, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 25 to 28, 1999 (forthcoming).

Priller A, Golser R, Rom W, Steier P. 1999. Improvement of the stability of the VERA accelerator. Operation and application of electrostatic accelerators. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Northeastern Personnel, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 25 to 28, 1999 (forthcoming).

1998

W. Rom, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, E. Wild Systematic investigations of ¹⁴C measurements at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator Radiocarbon 40/1 (1998) 255-263

W. Rom, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, P. Steier, W. Vycudilik, E. Wild Systematic investigations of ¹⁴C AMS measurements and first results of a forensic study in humans In: J.R. Heys and D.G. Melillo, eds., “Synthesis and Applications of Isotopically Labelled Compounds”, Verlag John Wiley (1998) 567-570

P. Stadler, S. Draxler, H. Friesinger, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, P. Steier, E. Wild Die Absolutdatierung der Urnenfelderzeitlichen und Früh-Mittelalterlichen Wallanlagen von Thunau am Kamp, MG Gars am Kamp, Niederösterreich mit Hilfe von ¹⁴C-Daten Archaeologia Austriaca 82-83, Verlag Franz Deuticke, Wien (1998-1999) 39–45

R. Weissenbök, S.R. Biegalski, L.A. Currie, D.B. Klinedinst, R. Golser, G.A. Klouda, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, P. Steier, E. Wild ¹⁴C measurements of sub-milligram carbon samples from aerosols In W..G. Mook and J. van der Plicht, eds., Radiocarbon, 40/1 (1998) 265-272

E. Wild, R. Golser, P. Hille, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, W. Rom, P. Steier, W. Vycudilik First ¹⁴C results from archaeological and forensic studies at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator In: W.G. Mook and J. van der Plicht, eds., Radiocarbon, 40/1 (1998) 273-281

Wallner A, Chuvaev SV, Filatenkov AA, Kutschera W, Mertens G, Priller A, Rochow W, Steier P, Vonach H. 1998 Study of the ²⁷Al(n,2n)²⁶Al reaction. Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Nucl. Data for Science and Technology, Eds. Reffo G, Ventura A, Grandi C. Trieste, Italy, May 19-24, 1997. Conf. Series of the Italian Phys. Society. Vol. 59, 1248-1251.

Wallner A, Golser R, Kutschera W, Priller A, Steier P, Vonach H, Wild E. 1998. 26Al Measurements with VERA. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 139: 301-305.

1997

R. Golser,  H. Friedmann,  A. Priller,  P. Steier,  W. Kutschera,  O. Benka,  E. Steinbauer New detector concepts for AMS Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 123 (1997) 170-173

W. Kutschera, P. Collon, H. Friedmann, R. Golser, P. Hille, A. Priller, W. Rom, P. Steier, S. Tagesen, A. Wallner, E. Wild, G. Winkler,  VERA:  A new AMS facility in Vienna Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 123 (1997) 47-50

A. Priller, R. Golser, P. Hille, W. Kutschera, W. Rom, P. Steier, A. Wallner, E. Wild First performance tests of VERA Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 123 (1997) 193-198

A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Pavlik, B. Strohmaier, H. Vonach, A. Wallner, G. Winkler, M.B. Chadwick  Double-differential neutron emission cross sections of Na and Pb Phys. Rev. C 56 (1997) 1424-1437

Priller A, Steier P, Golser R, Kutschera W, Rom W, Wallner A, Wild E. 1997. Hard-VERA and soft-VERA. Proceedings of the 31st Symposium of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel (Eds. Dworschak F, Hölzle R.) World Scientific, Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong: 181-188.