Cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne measured in quartz targets after one year of exposure in the Swiss Alps

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 417-425

  Vermeesch, Pieter ^a   Baur, Heinrich ^a   Heber, Veronika S ^a   Kober, Florian ^a   Oberholzer, Peter ^a   Schaefer, Joerg M ^a   Schlüchter, Christian ^b   Strasky, Stefan ^a   Wieler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

attenuation length; cosmogenic nuclides; helium; neon; quartz

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TARGETS; ATTENUATION LENGTH; ATTENUATION LENGTHS; BEST ESTIMATES; BRANCHING RATIO; CALIBRATION SITE; CONTAINER WALLS; COSMIC RAY INTENSITY; COSMOGENIC HELIUM; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; COUNT RATES; EMPIRICAL ATTENUATION; HIGH LATITUDES; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; IN-VACUUM; INCONEL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEUTRON MONITORS; NOBLE GAS; PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION; PRODUCTION RATES; QUARTZ SAND; RAW MEASUREMENTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCALING MODEL; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SHORT TIME SCALE; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR MODULATION; STEEL TUBE; SWISS ALPS; SWITZERLAND; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; WEIGHTED MEAN;

ATOMS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ERRORS; INERT GASES; ISOTOPES; MODULATION; NEON; NEUTRONS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SHIELDING; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TARGETS; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

HELIUM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEGASSING; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HELIUM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NEON; QUARTZ;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 67650561850     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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