Measurement of naturally occurring radioactive materials, 238U and 232Th-part 3: is efficiency calibration necessary for quantitative measurement of ultra-low level NORM?

被引:8
作者
Naskar, Nabanita [1 ,2 ]
Lahiri, Susanta [2 ]
Chaudhuri, Punarbasu [1 ]
Srivastava, Alok [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calcutta, Dept Environm Sci, 35 Ballygunge Circular Rd, Kolkata 700019, India
[2] Saha Inst Nucl Phys, 1-AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
[3] Panjab Univ, Dept Chem, Chandigarh 160014, India
关键词
Naturally occurring radioactive materials; Gamma-spectrometry; Efficiency calibration; Comparator method; GAMMA-SPECTROMETRY MEASUREMENTS; MONTE-CARLO CALCULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL-SAMPLES; HPGE DETECTOR; GERMANIUM DETECTORS; CODE; RADIONUCLIDES; GEANT4;
D O I
10.1007/s10967-017-5403-y
中图分类号
O65 [分析化学];
学科分类号
070302 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A well-calibrated and highly shielded HPGe detector with considerable relative efficiency is an efficient tool for measurement of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) present at ultra low-level in the environmental samples. Efficiency calibration is standard protocol required for quantitative estimation of the activity of any radioactive sample. In the present work it has been shown that in the case of ultra-low level NORM measurement, one can comfortably by pass efficiency calibration by using comparator method i.e., comparing the peak area counts of different photopeaks of standard and samples provided they are counted in same geometry and comparable composition.
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