New isotope technologies in environmental physics

Acta Physica Slovaca

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-154

  Povinec, P P ^a,e   Betti, M ^b   Jull, A J T ^c   Vojtyla, P ^d  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e International Atomic Energy Agency   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Climate change; Depleted uranium; GEANT; HPGe detectors; In situ underwater gamma spectrometry; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Liquid scintillation spectrometry; Low level counting; Mass spectrometry; Monte Carlo simulation; Radioecology; Radionuclides; Resonance ionisation mass spectrometry; Secondary ionisation mass spectrometry; Thermal ionisation mass spectrometry; Underground laboratory

Indexed keywords

EID: 65149095440     PISSN: 03230465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10155-010-0088-6     Document Type: Article

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