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Spectral resolution evaluation by MCNP simulation for airborne alpha detection system with a collimator

  • Kim, Min Ji;Sung, Si Hyeong;Kim, Hee Reyoung
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.1311-1317
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    • 2021
  • In this study, an airborne alpha detection system, which consists of a passivated implanted planar silicon (PIPS) detector and an air filter, was developed. A collimator applied to the alpha detection system showed an enhancement in resolution and a degradation in detection efficiency. The resolution and detection efficiency were compared and analyzed to evaluate the performance of the collimator. Thus, the resolution was found to be more important than the efficiency as a determining factor of the detection system performance, from the viewpoint of radionuclide identification. The performance was evaluated on three properties of the collimator: hole shape, hole length, and the ratio between the hole and frame pitches. From the hole shape performance evaluation, a hexagonal collimator showed the highest resolution. Further, the collimator with a hole pitch of 14 mm was found to have the highest resolution while that with a frame pitch of 4-6 mm (i.e., 1.2-1.4 times longer than the hole pitch) showed the highest resolution.

Signal Detection Based on a Decreasing Exponential Function in Alpha-Stable Distributed Noise

  • Luo, Jinjun;Wang, Shilian;Zhang, Eryang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.269-286
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    • 2018
  • Signal detection in symmetric alpha-stable ($S{\alpha}S$) distributed noise is a challenging problem. This paper proposes a detector based on a decreasing exponential function (DEF). The DEF detector can effectively suppress the impulsive noise and achieve good performance in the presence of $S{\alpha}S$ noise. The analytical expressions of the detection and false alarm probabilities of the DEF detector are derived, and the parameter optimization for the detector is discussed. A performance analysis shows that the DEF detector has much lower computational complexity than the Gaussian kernelized energy detector (GKED), and it performs better than the latter in $S{\alpha}S$ noise with small characteristic exponent values. In addition, the DEF detector outperforms the fractional lower order moment (FLOM)-based detector in $S{\alpha}S$ noise for most characteristic exponent values with the same order of magnitude of computational complexity.

A Combination of Signature-based IDS and Machine Learning-based IDS using Alpha-cut and Beta pick (Alpha-cut과 Beta-pick를 이용한 시그너쳐 기반 침입탐지 시스템과 기계학습 기반 침입탐지 시스템의 결합)

  • Weon, Ill-Young;Song, Doo-Heon;Lee, Chang-Hoon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.12C no.4 s.100
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    • pp.609-616
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    • 2005
  • Signature-based Intrusion Detection has many false positive and many difficulties to detect new and changed attacks. Alpha-cut is introduced which reduces false positive with a combination of signature-based IDS and machine learning-based IDS in prior paper [1]. This research is a study of a succession of Alpha-cut, and we introduce Beta-rick in which attacks can be detected but cannot be detected in single signature-based detection. Alpha-cut is a way of increasing detection accuracy for the signature based IDS, Beta-pick is a way which decreases the case of treating attack as normality. For Alpha-cut and Beta-pick we use XIBL as a learning algorithm and also show the difference of result of Sd.5. To describe the value of proposed method we apply Alpha-cut and Beta-pick to signature-based IDS and show the decrease of false alarms.

Optimization of airborne alpha beta detection system modeling using MCNP simulation

  • Sung, Si Hyeong;Kim, Hee Reyoung
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.841-845
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    • 2020
  • An airborne alpha beta detection system using passivated implanted planar silicon (PIPS) detector was modeled with the MCNP6 code and its resolution and detection efficiency were analyzed. Simulation of the resolution performed using the Gaussian energy broadening (GEB) function showed that the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 35.214 keV for alpha particles was within 34-38 KeV, which is the FWHM range of the actual detector, and the FWHM of 15.1 keV for beta particles was constructed with a similar model to 17 keV, which is the FWHM range of an actual detector. In addition, the detection efficiency and the resolution were simulated according to the distance between the detector and the air filter. When the distance was decreased to 0.2 cm from 0.8 cm, the efficiency of the alpha and beta particles detection decreased from 5.33% to 4.89% and from 5.64% to 4.27%, respectively, and the FWHM of the alpha and beta particles improved from 40.9 KeV to 29.84 keV and 25.76 keV-13.27 keV, respectively.

Simultaneous Enantiomer Separation of α-Amino Acids and Their Esters as Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl Derivatives under UV and Fluorescence Detection by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (고성능 액체 크로마토그래피에서 아미노산과 이들 에스테르의 플루오레닐메톡시카르보닐 유도체의 자외선과 형광 검출에서의 동시 광학분리)

  • Islam, Md. Fokhrul;Lee, Wonjae
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.197-201
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    • 2015
  • Liquid chromatographic enantiomer separation of ${\alpha}$-amino acids and their methyl and ethyl esters as fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (FMOC) derivatives was performed using a recently developed chiral column (Chiralpak IE) based on polysaccharide derivative under simultaneous UV detection and fluorescence detection. The degree of enantiomer separation of ${\alpha}$-amino acid esters as FMOC derivatives is generally higher than that of the corresponding ${\alpha}$-amino acids. Especially, ${\alpha}$-amino acid methyl esters showed the greatest enantioseparation. As this method developed in this study can be applied to determine the chemical and optical purity of ${\alpha}$-amino acids and esters, it is expected to be quite useful for their chiral separation using Chiralpak IE.

Measurement of Detection Efficiency of Plastic Track Detector to ${\alpha}-particle$ (고체비적검출기의 알파선 검출효율 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Young-Woong;Yang, Hyun-Soo
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 1996
  • The calibration method for the detection efficiency of solid state track detector to alpha is presented, and the detection efficiency of CN-85 and LEXAN to alpha is measured by this method. The results are 97% and 57% in CN-85 and LEXAN, respectively. The reason for a better result in CN-85 in not only the high sensitivity but also the low energy dependency with comparing for LEXAN. The peak detection efficiency is 3MeV and 1.8MeV in CN-85 and LEXAN, respectively.

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Robust Multiuser Detection Based on Least p-Norm State Space Filtering Model

  • Zha, Daifeng
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.185-191
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    • 2007
  • Alpha stable distribution is better for modeling impulsive noises than Gaussian distribution in signal processing. This class of process has no closed form of probability density function and finite second order moments. In general, Wiener filter theory is not meaningful in S$\alpha$SG environments because the expectations may be unbounded. We proposed a new adaptive recursive least p-norm Kalman filtering algorithm based on least p-norm of innovation process with infinite variances, and a new robust multiuser detection method based on least p-norm Kalman filtering. The simulation experiments show that the proposed new algorithm is more robust than the conventional Kalman filtering multiuser detection algorithm.

α -Cyclodextrin Modified Screen Printed Graphite Electrodes for Detection of Phenols

  • Kim, Hwa-jeong;Jang, Seung-Cheol;Shim, Yoon-Bo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.427-431
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    • 2002
  • A screen printed graphite electrode has been developed for a simple and sensitive determination of phenolic compounds in an aqueous solution. The electrode developed uses a simple and effective screen printing technique with ${\alpha}-Cyclodextrin({\alpha}-CD)$ modified graphite ink. Phenols were captured on the surface of the ${\alpha}-CD$ modified electrode through complex formation. The phenol/ ${\alpha}-CD$ complex was deposited and quantified electrochemically using cyclic voltammetry (CV), differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and square wave voltammetry (SWV). The optimization of the experimental parameters was performed in regard to electrode composition, pH, temperature, sample preconcentration time. Interferences from other organic compounds were investigated. The detection limit for phenols was 500 ${\pm}7$ nM for DPV, with the linear range of 0.5 ${\mu}M$ -25.0 ${\mu}M$ and 30 ${\pm}2$ nM for SWV, with the linear range of 30 nM - $50{\mu}M$, respectively.

An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detection of Milk proteins in Food (우유단백질의 분석을 위한 효소면역측정법)

  • Shon, Dong-Hwa;Kim, Hyun-Jung;Bae, Gun-Won;Kim, Soon-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.564-569
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    • 2000
  • An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) was developed for the detection of milk proteins in processed foods. The ${\alpha}_{s1}-casein({\alpha}_{s1}-CN)$, a heat stable major milk protein, was immunized into rabbits to produce specific antibodies. When competitive indirect ELISA(ciELISA) using $anti-{\alpha}_{s1}-CN$ antibodies was established, its detection limit was $0.1\;{\mu}g/mL$. The reactivities of the specific antibodies toward ${\alpha}_{s1}-CN$, skim milk, ${\beta}-CN$ and whey protein isolate(WPI) were 100, 37, 0.14 and 0.04%, respectively, as determined by ciELISA. However $anti-{\alpha}_{s1}-CN$ antibodies did not have any reactivity to other milk proteins such as ${\beta}-lactoglobulin,\;{\alpha}-lactalbumin$, bovine serum albumin, and isolated soy protein. When sandwich ELISA was established, its detection limit was $0.01\;{\mu}g/mL$ which was 10 times more sensitive than that of ciELISA. In the spike test which was performed by adding 1-10% of whole CN to market milk, mean assay recovery as determined by sandwich ELISA was 94.8%(CV, 8.2%). Food stuffs and dairy products were assayed by sandwich ELISA to show 29, 0.13, 0.25, and 6.9% of whole CN in skim milk powder, WPI, semi-solid yoghurt, and processed cheese, respectively.

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