High sensitivity activation analysis using an underground laboratory for gamma spectrometry

Authors :: W. Helbig
S. Niese
Source :: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 17:431-434
Publication Year :: 1986
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 1986.
Abstract: The underground laboratory of the CINR with 125 metres water equivalent (mwe) is used mainly for activation analysis of pure materials. Background spectra of NaI(Tl) and Ge(Li) detectors are discussed in comparison with those of other underground laboratories. Detection limits are calculated as disintegration rates to about 15 mBq as well as masses detectable by neutron activation analysis for some 50 elements, most of them below pg.

Subjects :: Detection limit
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Chemistry
Radiochemistry
Underground laboratory
Neutron activation analysis
Water equivalent
Mass spectrometry
Instrumentation
Sensitivity (electronics)
Spectral line

ISSN :: 0168583X
Volume :: 17
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........8408dc82e6435411248a10b3c0fadbea
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-583x(86)90178-3

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