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Nuclide Identification of Gamma Ray Energy Peaks from an Air Sample for the Emergency Radiation Monitoring  

Byun, Jong-In (University of Science and Technology)
Yoon, Seok-Won (University of Science and Technology)
Choi, Hee-Yeoul (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
Yim, Seong-A (University of Science and Technology)
Lee, Dong-Myung (University of Science and Technology)
Yun, Ju-Yong (University of Science and Technology)
Publication Information
Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.34, no.4, 2009 , pp. 170-175 More about this Journal
Abstract
For the emergency radiation monitoring using gamma spectrometry, we should sufficiently survey the background spectra as environmental samples with systematic nuclide identification method. In this study, we obtained the gamma ray energy spectrum using a HPGe gamma spectrometry system from an air sample. And we identified nuclide of the gamma ray energy peaks in the spectrum using two methods -1) Half life calculation and 2) survey for cascade coincidence summing peaks using nuclear data. As the results, we produced the nuclide identification results for the air sample.
Keywords
Air Sample; Gamma Ray Energy Spectrum; Nuclide Identification;
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