• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.71-79
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• 1993

소둔시편 및 소둔 후 냉간가공한 하프늄시편에 대하여 양전자수명을 조사하였다. 소둔시편에서의 양전자수명은 187$\pm$3.7 psec인 반면, 소둔 후 냉간가공한 시편에서 격자결함에 포획된 양전자의 수명은 217$\pm$4.2 psec로 측정되었다. 양전자소멸측정 및 미세경도측정 방법을 이용하여 등시소둔에 의한 냉간가공시편의 회복 및 재결정 거동을 조사하였다. 재결정단계에서는 양전자소멸측정 과 미세경도측정값이 유사한 경향을 나타냈으나, 회복단계에서는 양전자소멸측정값이 매우 현저하게 변화하는 반면, 미세경도값은 거의 변화하지 않았다. 하프늄의 회복단계는 623 K부터 시작되며 재결정온도는 1023 K정도로 측정되었다.

• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.383-392
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• 2018

For prompt gamma ray imaging for biomedical applications and environmental radiation monitoring, we propose herein a multiple-scattering Compton camera (MSCC). MSCC consists of three or more semiconductor layers with good energy resolution, and has potential for simultaneous detection and differentiation of multiple radio-isotopes based on the measured energies, as well as three-dimensional (3D) imaging of the radio-isotope distribution. In this study, we developed an analytic simulator and a 3D image generator for a MSCC, including the physical models of the radiation source emission and detection processes that can be utilized for geometry and performance prediction prior to the construction of a real system. The analytic simulator for a MSCC records coincidence detections of successive interactions in multiple detector layers. In the successive interaction processes, the emission direction of the incident gamma ray, the scattering angle, and the changed traveling path after the Compton scattering interaction in each detector, were determined by a conical surface uniform random number generator (RNG), and by a Klein-Nishina RNG. The 3D image generator has two functions: the recovery of the initial source energy spectrum and the 3D spatial distribution of the source. We evaluated the analytic simulator and image generator with two different energetic point radiation sources (Cs-137 and Co-60) and with an MSCC comprising three detector layers. The recovered initial energies of the incident radiations were well differentiated from the generated MSCC events. Correspondingly, we could obtain a multi-tracer image that combined the two differentiated images. The developed analytic simulator in this study emulated the randomness of the detection process of a multiple-scattering Compton camera, including the inherent degradation factors of the detectors, such as the limited spatial and energy resolutions. The Doppler-broadening effect owing to the momentum distribution of electrons in Compton scattering was not considered in the detection process because most interested isotopes for biomedical and environmental applications have high energies that are less sensitive to Doppler broadening. The analytic simulator and image generator for MSCC can be utilized to determine the optimal geometrical parameters, such as the distances between detectors and detector size, thus affecting the imaging performance of the Compton camera prior to the development of a real system.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.359-362
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• 2002

DBPAS has been used to characterize atomic level defect structures in materials. In this investigation the numerical analysis of the Doppler spectra was restricted to the determination of the shape parameter, S, defined as the ratio between the total amount of counts in a central portion of the spectrum and the total amount of counts. As samples were exposed by X-ray increasing from 3, 6, and 9 Gy with 6 MV, and 10 MV each and also by E-beam increasing the energies with 6 MeV, 9 MeV, 12 MeV, and 20 MeV. The S-parameter values were increased as increasing the exposed time and the energies. The S-parameters of the large and small size grains in $CaWO_4$ were measured. The S-parameter of the small size grains in $CaWO_4$ was resulted in larger values.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.263-268
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• 2004

한국원자력연구소에서 감마선과 전자를 동시측정하기 위한 목적으로 제작된 Prototype phowich를 이용하여 감마선에 대한 섬광체의 비선형성에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 제작된 Prototype phoswich는 $2'{\times}2'$ CsI(Tl)와 Plastic scintillator 그리고 하나의 PMT로 구성되어 있다. 몬테칼로 방법을 이용하여 $^{137}Cs$과 $^{60}Co$ 선원의 Prototype phoswich 계측기의 반응함수(Detector Response Function, 이하 DRF)를 구하였으며 이를 점증하기 위하여 제작된 Prototype phoswich를 이용, 실험을 통하여 DRF를 구한 뒤 비교하였다. 계측기의 DRF를 정확하게 모사하기 위하여 CsI(Tl) 섬광체의 Electron response와 섬광체 내에서의 광전효과를 고려하는 Simplified elec윤on cascade sequence 정보를 이용하여 CsI(Tl) 섬광체의 감마선에 대한 비선형성을 계산하였다. $^{137}Cs$ 선원의 경우 전산모사를 통하여 구한 DRF 결과는 실험값과 비교적 잘 일치함을 알 수 있었으나 $^{60}Co$의 경우에는 선원의 결과와는 달리 전산모사 결과와 실험값에 약간의 차이가 남을 알 수 있었다. 이는 $^{137}Cs$ 선원과는 달리 $^{90}Co$은 1.17 MeV와 1.13 MeV 두 개의 광자를 동시에 방출하기 때문에 동시효과에 의한 불착실성 등이 그 외 다른 불확실성 등과 함께 증폭되어 나타나기 때문이다. 본 연구를 통해 Phoswich내 CsI(Tl)의 감마선 비선형성에 대한 분석을 수행하였으며 이를 통하여 비선형성이 고려된 개선된 Phoswich DRF를 생산하고 이를 실험값과 비교 검증할 수 있었다. 섬광체의 Electron channel운g effect, Doppler broadening effect 및 Transfer resolution 등과 같은 후속연구가 추가된다면 좀더 정확한 Phoswich의 DRF를 전산 모사하는 것이 가능해질 것이다.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.489-494
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• 2010

저속 에너지 도플러 넓어짐 양전자 소멸 분광법으로 $Nb_3Ge$ 시료내의 원자 크기 정도 고체 구조 특성에 대하여 조사하였다. A15 화합물 구조로 된 $Nb_3Ge$ 시료를 상온에서 초전도 특성을 갖는 상전이 온도 근처의 S-변수를 측정하였다. 양전자와 전자의 쌍소멸로 발생하는 511 keV 감마선 스펙트럼의 수리적 해석 방법인 S-변수를 사용하여, 상전이 근처 온도에서 박막의 구조 변화를 측정하였다. 양전자의 입사 에너지에 따른 S-변수는 0.598에서 0.594로 온도의 변화에 의하여 감소하였으며 이때 초전도 전이와는 무관함을 나타낸다. 고온으로 갈수록 일반적인 트랩핑 비율은 커지고 양전자 흐름은 공공(voids) 근처에서 소멸하는 것이 보였다. 이 결과로부터 양전자가 초전자와 소멸하기 보다는 상전자와 소멸하는 것으로 판단된다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.145-153
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• 2009

We present measurements of diffuse interstellar $H_2$ absorption lines in the continuum spectra of 10 early-type stars. The data were observed with the Berkeley Extreme and Far-Ultraviolet Spectrometer (BEFS) of the ORFEUS telescope on board the ORFEUS-SPAS I and II space-shuttle missions in 1993 and 1996, respectively. The spectra extend from the interstellar cutoff at 912 $\AA$ to about 1200 $\AA$ with a resolution of ~ 3000 and statistical signal-to-noise ratios between 10 and 65. Adopting Doppler broadening velocities from high-resolution optical observations, we obtain the $H_2$ column densities of rotational levels J" = 0 through 5 for each line of sight. The kinetic temperatures derived from J" = 0 and 1 states show a small variation around the mean value of 80 K, except for the component toward HD 219188, which has a temperature of 211 K. Based on a synthetic interstellar cloud model described in our previous work, we derive the incident UV intensity IUV and the hydrogen density $n_H$ of the observed components to be -0.4 $\leq$ log $I_{UV}\leq2.2$ and $6.3{\leq}n_H2500cm^{-3}$, respectively.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.366-371
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• 1997

기체상태의 루비듐 원자가 실온에서 Maxwell 속도 분포를 이루고 있을 때 광펌핑 현상과 특정 속도 원자의 선택에 의해 도플러 효과를 제거시키는 속도군 선택 광펌핑(VSOP) 분광학을 실시하였다. 본 실험에서는 주파수가 고정된 locked laser와 주파수 튜닝이 가능한 sweep laser를 동시에 사용하되, 두 빔을 같은 방향으로 진행시키고, 시료 속에서 서로 겹치게 함으로써 주공진 신호만을 발생시킬 수 있었다. 이 방법으로 지금까지 알려진 VSOP 분광학보다 원자들의 속도 선택 범위가 더 넓어졌다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.427-431
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• 2008

The mechanical property of a phosphore layer was investigated by measuring the resolution (LP/mm) and by positron annihilation spectroscopy and SEM. Image plate samples containing the phosphore layer were irradiated by X-rays in a hospital numerous times over a course of several years. The LP/mm values of a (Ba,Sr)FBr : Eu image plate irradiated by X-rays varied between 2.2 and 2.0 over a period of four years. Coincidence Doppler Broadening (CDB) positron annihilation spectroscopy was used to analyze defect structures. The S parameters of the samples from hospital use varied from 0.6219 to 0.6232. There was a positive relationship between the time of exposure to the X-rays and the S parameters. Most of the defects were found to have been generated by X-rays.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2012

Existing but largely unused binary star model capabilities are examined. An easily implemented scheme is parameterization of starspot growth and decay that can stimulate work on outer convection zones and their dynamos. Improved precision in spot computation now enhances analysis of very precise data. An existing computational model for blended spectral line profiles is accurate for binary system effects but needs to include damping, thermal Doppler, and other intrinsic broadening effects. Binary star ephemerides had been found exclusively from eclipse timings until recently, but now come also from whole light and radial velocity curves. A logical further development will be to expand these whole curve solutions to include eclipse timings. An attenuation model for circumstellar clouds, with several absorption and scattering mechanisms, has been applied only once, perhaps because the model clouds have fixed locations. However the clouds could be made to move dynamically and be combined into moving streams and disks. An area of potential interest is polarization curve analysis, where incentive for modeling could follow from publication of observed polarization curves. Other recent advances include direct single step solutions for temperatures of both stars of an eclipsing binary and third body kinematics from combined light and velocity curves.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.340-355
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• 2018

The methods and performance of a fast reactor multigroup cross section (XS) generation code EXUS-F are described that is capable of directly processing Evaluated Nuclear Data File format nuclear data files. RECONR of NJOY is used to generate pointwise XS data, and Doppler broadening is incorporated by the Gauss-Hermite quadrature method. The self-shielding effect is incorporated in the ultrafine group XSs in the resolved and unresolved resonance ranges. Functions to generate scattering transfer matrices and fission spectrum matrices are realized. The extended transport approximation is used in zero-dimensional calculations, whereas the collision probability method and the method of characteristics are used for one-dimensional cylindrical geometry and two-dimensional hexagonal geometry problems, respectively. Verification calculations are performed first for various homogeneous mixtures and cylindrical problems. It is confirmed that the spectrum calculations and the corresponding multigroup XS generations are performed adequately in that the reactivity errors are less than 50 pcm with the McCARD Monte Carlo solutions. The nTRACER core calculations are performed with the EXUS-F-generated 47 group XSs for the two-dimensional Advanced Burner Reactor 1000 benchmark problem. The reactivity error of 160 pcm and the root mean square error of the pin powers of 0.7% indicate that EXUF-F generates properly the broad-group XSs.