Disequilibrium estimations in the U and Th series by using thick source alpha-particle spectroscopy

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 43, Issue 2-6, 2008, Pages 1149-1153

  Michael, C T ^a   Hein, A ^a   Zacharias, N ^a   Kritidis, P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alpha counting; Disequilibrium; Th; U

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; SEDIMENTATION; SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

(100) SILICON; ELSEVIER (CO); GAMMA-SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SPECTROSCOPY (PS); PARTICLE SPECTRUM;

CLAY MINERALS;

EID: 45149135428     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.11.036     Document Type: Article

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