Title
A comparison between neutron-fluence measurements using metal-activation monitors and standard glasses calibrated via thin uranium-fission monitors and via ηq method
Date Issued
01 June 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Curvo E.
Jonckheere R.
Guedes S.
Iunes P.
Hadler J.
Unterricker S.
Ratschbacher L.
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The two fundamental approaches to fission-track dating involve either an explicit determination of the thermal neutron fluence (φ-method) or a calibration against age standards (ζ-method). The neutron fluence measurements are carried out with metal-activation monitors or with uranium-fission monitors, co-irradiated with the samples. Uranium-fission monitors consist of either a thin “mono-atomic”) film, or a thick fission source (standard uranium glass) irradiated against a muscovite external track detector. In this work, different techniques for performing neutron-fluence measurements were compared: based on thin-film calibration, based on thick-source calibration, and based on gamma spectrometry of co-irradiated metal monitors (Au, Co). The results suggest that more experiments are needed to make all calibrations consistent, including new measurements of the length of etched induced tracks in mica. Also the standard glass calibration carried out with thin films should be confirmed with a greater number of calibrating irradiations.
Start page
38
End page
44
Volume
53-54
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84875387846
Source
Radiation Measurements
ISSN of the container
13504487
Sponsor(s)
All the calibration standards were kindly made available by Dr. Werner Preuβe from the Staatsbetrieb Staatliche Betriebsgesellschaft für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft - Chemnitz. We are also grateful to Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, process n° 4143-06-0) and to State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, process n° 2005/01684-4) which supported this work through post-doctoral grants (E.A.C.C.).
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