Decreasing of the natural background counting - Passive and active method

Nukleonika

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 165-169

  Kozak, Krzysztof ^a   Mietelski, Jerzy W ^a   Jasińska, Mirosława ^a   Gaca, Paweł ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Active shield ; Background reduction ; Environmental radioactivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035657951     PISSN: 00295922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Heusser G (1985) The background components of germanium low level spectrometers. In: Proc Int Conf On Low Level Counting, Bratislava, pp 1-14
2. Heusser G (1991) Cosmic ray induced background in Ge-spectrometry. Nucl Instrum Meth Phys Res B 83:223-228
3. Heusser G (1996) Cosmic ray interaction study with low-level Gespectrometry. Nucl Instrum Meth Phys Res A 369:539-543
4. Knoll GF (1989) Radiation detection and measurement. Wiley & Sons, New York
5. Mietelski JW, Hajduk Z, Jasińska M, Kozak K, Hajduk L (1999) Ultra low-level gamma-spectrometer with cosmic-rays muon veto detector. In: Annual Report, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków, pp 287-288
6. Reeves JH, Arthur RJ (1988) Anticosmic-shielded ultra low-background germanium detector for analysis of bulk environmental samples. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 124;2:435-447