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Benchmarking the repeatability of a pneumatic cyclic neutron activation analysis facility using 16O(n,p)16N for nuclear forensics.
| العنوان: | Benchmarking the repeatability of a pneumatic cyclic neutron activation analysis facility using 16O(n,p)16N for nuclear forensics. |
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| المؤلفون: | Pierson BD; Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: bpnuke@umich.edu., Griffin HC; Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA., Flaska M; Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA., Katalenich JA; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA., Kitchen BB; Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA., Pozzi SA; Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: http://www.umich.edu/~nuclear/labs/dnng/. |
| المصدر: | Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine [Appl Radiat Isot] 2015 Feb; Vol. 96, pp. 20-26. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Nov 22. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Pergamon Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9306253 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1872-9800 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09698043 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Appl Radiat Isot Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, c1993- |
| مستخلص: | A target was prepared for cyclic neutron activation analysis by heat sealing lithium-carbonate in polyethylene. The target was cyclically irradiated 50 times using a Thermo-Scientific accelerator based deuterium-tritium fusion neutron generator. During counting periods, gamma-rays emitted by (16)N were detected using three high-purity germanium detectors acquiring data in list-mode. Total counts acquired in each spectrum were compared between the three detectors to examine variability in geometric positioning of the target and variability of the generator intensity throughout the experiment. These two effects were determined to be the primary sources of variation in the measured counts. Variation in target positioning and generator intensity were found to increase the standard deviation by 34% and 33%, respectively. Transit times to the detector were found to be slower and more variable than transit to the generator but were well below the half second threshold needed to measure short-lived radionuclides with half-lives on the order of seconds. The standard deviation in irradiation time was found to be less than 1 milliseconds. The impact on statistical variability in the measured counts was negligible relative to the two primary sources of variation. Spectra acquired from each cycle were summed together. The sum of the peak areas from the 6.1 MeV gamma-ray and its corresponding single and double escape peaks were used to measure the half-life of (16)N. The result of 7.108(15)seconds derived from data suggests that the currently published value of 7.13(2)seconds has minimal systematic bias induced by background. (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.) |
| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Cyclic neutron activation analysis; Dead-time; Fusion neutron; Half-life; List-mode data acquisition; Nitrogen-16; Pulse pile-up; Short-lived |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20141206 Date Completed: 20150521 Latest Revision: 20180418 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20231215 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.apradiso.2014.11.010 |
| PMID: | 25479431 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1872-9800 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.apradiso.2014.11.010 |