Monte Carlo based calibration of an air monitoring system for gamma and beta+ radiation
| Autor: | V. D’Errico, Michaela Benassi, D. Bianchini, Lidia Strigari, Matteo Negrini, Emilio Mezzenga, Anna Sarnelli, F. Marcocci, E. Menghi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Physics
Radionuclide Fluorine Radioisotopes Radiation Physics::Medical Physics Monte Carlo method Radiochemistry Gamma ray Technetium Electrons Computational physics Beta Particles Air Pollutants Radioactive Gamma Rays Radiation Monitoring Beta particle Calibration Measuring instrument Radiation monitoring Humans Monte Carlo Method |
| Zdroj: | Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine. 105 |
| ISSN: | 1872-9800 |
| Popis: | Marinelli beaker systems are used to monitor the activity of radioactive samples. These systems are usually calibrated with water solutions and the determination of the activity in gases requires correction coefficients accounting for the different mass-thickness of the sample. For beta+ radionuclides the different distribution of the positrons annihilation points should be also considered. In this work a Monte Carlo simulation based on Geant4 is used to compute correction coefficients for the measurement of the activity of air samples. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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