Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter
85Kr is a noble gas radioactive nuclide with a half-life of 10.75 years, and it decays by emission of beta rays associated with weak gamma rays. Most of the 85Kr released into the atmosphere is artificially produced by neutron induced fission reactions, and it plays an important role in atmospheric...
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| author | LIANG Jianfeng, XIE Feng, DAI Yihua, SHI Quanlin, WANG Chunjie, LI Xuesong, GUAN Qingdi, JIANG Wengang, YU Gongshuo, LIU Zhichao |
| author_facet | LIANG Jianfeng, XIE Feng, DAI Yihua, SHI Quanlin, WANG Chunjie, LI Xuesong, GUAN Qingdi, JIANG Wengang, YU Gongshuo, LIU Zhichao |
| author_sort | LIANG Jianfeng, XIE Feng, DAI Yihua, SHI Quanlin, WANG Chunjie, LI Xuesong, GUAN Qingdi, JIANG Wengang, YU Gongshuo, LIU Zhichao |
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| description | 85Kr is a noble gas radioactive nuclide with a half-life of 10.75 years, and it decays by emission of beta rays associated with weak gamma rays. Most of the 85Kr released into the atmosphere is artificially produced by neutron induced fission reactions, and it plays an important role in atmospheric environmental monitoring, detection of clandestine production of fissile materials, and verification of atmospheric transport model. Low-level detection of 85Kr is therefore required. Internal gas proportional counter (IGPC) is one of the primary techniques to measure 85Kr. However, studies about anti-coincidence measurement based on IGPC mostly focused on the measurement of 37Ar, and few studies about 85Kr were reported. In this paper, an anti-cosmic ray IGPC system was established to improve the detection sensitivity of 85Kr. A quasi-4π well-type plastic scintillator surrounding the inner IGPC was used as an anti-coincidence detector to actively shield the background arising from cosmic rays. Compared with the non-anticoincidence spectrum, the background count rate of the anti-coincidence spectrum decreases from 3.64 s−1 to 0.182 s−1. The activity concentration of 85Kr was measured using length compensation method, and the detection efficiency of the system was calibrated to be 95.8%. The minimum detectable activity of 85Kr of about 7 mBq was achieved within 24 hours, which effectively improves the measurement sensitivity of 85Kr. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-633efb593c2d491e83630b6d437cc2b42025-08-20T01:52:38ZengEditorial Board of Atomic Energy Science and TechnologyYuanzineng kexue jishu1000-69312025-05-015951120112510.7538/yzk.2024.youxian.0643 Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter LIANG Jianfeng, XIE Feng, DAI Yihua, SHI Quanlin, WANG Chunjie, LI Xuesong, GUAN Qingdi, JIANG Wengang, YU Gongshuo, LIU Zhichao0Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi’an 710024, China85Kr is a noble gas radioactive nuclide with a half-life of 10.75 years, and it decays by emission of beta rays associated with weak gamma rays. Most of the 85Kr released into the atmosphere is artificially produced by neutron induced fission reactions, and it plays an important role in atmospheric environmental monitoring, detection of clandestine production of fissile materials, and verification of atmospheric transport model. Low-level detection of 85Kr is therefore required. Internal gas proportional counter (IGPC) is one of the primary techniques to measure 85Kr. However, studies about anti-coincidence measurement based on IGPC mostly focused on the measurement of 37Ar, and few studies about 85Kr were reported. In this paper, an anti-cosmic ray IGPC system was established to improve the detection sensitivity of 85Kr. A quasi-4π well-type plastic scintillator surrounding the inner IGPC was used as an anti-coincidence detector to actively shield the background arising from cosmic rays. Compared with the non-anticoincidence spectrum, the background count rate of the anti-coincidence spectrum decreases from 3.64 s−1 to 0.182 s−1. The activity concentration of 85Kr was measured using length compensation method, and the detection efficiency of the system was calibrated to be 95.8%. The minimum detectable activity of 85Kr of about 7 mBq was achieved within 24 hours, which effectively improves the measurement sensitivity of 85Kr.https://yznkxjs.xml-journal.net/article/doi/10.7538/yzk.2024.youxian.064385krinternal gas proportional counteranti-cosmic raylow-level activity measurement |
| spellingShingle | LIANG Jianfeng, XIE Feng, DAI Yihua, SHI Quanlin, WANG Chunjie, LI Xuesong, GUAN Qingdi, JIANG Wengang, YU Gongshuo, LIU Zhichao Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter Yuanzineng kexue jishu 85kr internal gas proportional counter anti-cosmic ray low-level activity measurement |
| title | Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter |
| title_full | Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter |
| title_fullStr | Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter |
| title_short | Radioactivity Measurement of 85Kr by Using Anti-cosmic Ray Internal Gas Proportional Counter |
| title_sort | radioactivity measurement of 85kr by using anti cosmic ray internal gas proportional counter |
| topic | 85kr internal gas proportional counter anti-cosmic ray low-level activity measurement |
| url | https://yznkxjs.xml-journal.net/article/doi/10.7538/yzk.2024.youxian.0643 |
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