High-energy detector calibration data for k0-neutron activation analysis.

Autor: Szentmiklosi, László, Maróti, Boglárka, Párkányi, Dénes, Harsányi, Ildikó, Révay, Zsolt
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Zdroj: Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry; Mar2018, Vol. 315 Issue 3, p743-750, 8p
Abstrakt: In k0-neutron activation analysis, HPGe detectors have to be calibrated up to about 3.1 MeV, in order to properly determine the Na, Ca and S content of analytes. Commercial radioactive sources cover the energy range only up to 2.2 MeV, but with activation in the reactor, additional high-energy gamma emitter radionuclides (72Ga, 56Mn, 116In and 24Na) can be produced. At a prompt-gamma activation analysis station, where the calibration is available up to 12 MeV, we derived accurate gamma-ray energies and relative intensities for these radionuclides and subsequently used them for broad energy-range efficiency and nonlinearity calibration of NAA detectors as well as a low-level counting station. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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