Radiation Detection

Hi Sparky, I just bought some more pewter which will allow me to double its thickness in my graded shield, so my next attempt will be with about 9 mm of pewter instead of 4-5 mm, that should further reduce fluorescence and it'll be interesting to compare results between spectra recorded with the two...

You are the king of the long measurements (and patience), Massimo! Maybe you can this way determine the optimal test period for these samples in your conditions, a good balance between time and result quality ;) One thing I learned, initially my focus was mainly in the accumulation time with the sa...

A promise is a promise....this is the result of my latest Trinitite measurement. The sample is the same “type 5” about which I already posted two different spectra, so this is the third one. This time it’s a 28 days measurement: 7 days of shielded background. 14 days with the sample inside the shiel...

Questions are great! I have a thread about my shield upgrade project, this post shows my current setup: https://www.gammaspectacular.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=805#p3777 Normal unshielded background is 125 cps with my detector. My early shield (used for JC-TR-01) got that down to about 25 cps....

Nice study and interesting to know, Massimo. I also thought the XRF contribution is greater. The 5 mm of pewter added to my shielding really do a good job in limiting the incidence of XRF and I am in the process to add some more. I think most of the increase on the low end is back-scatter noise, in...

Trinitite is always great to test, I found so much variety from one sample to the othee that I never really know what to expect before starting with a new one. I'd like to ask a few questions to understand the results better: Can you share some detail about your shielding setup? How many CPS your sa...

This is really something Peter,
Alpha spectroscopy is something that's been in the back of my mind for a while now, thank you for this post.

Massimo

Hello there, This is the second post about my “Autunite from Nevada” test. Why doing another post about it? Because I wanted to do a comparison of a shielded and an unshielded measurement of the same sample, both with background subtraction. When I started doing gamma spectroscopy it took me about s...

Hi Mike. A mistery source is always a lot of fun! Looking at the spectrum, Ra226 is definitely there. Problem is Ra226 gamma spectrum only differs from U238 for the two Th234 at 63 keV and 92 keV and it's very easy to miss them. I tested a few uranium ores where those two peaks were completely burie...

Hi Massimo, Thank you for sharing this measurement. You may have also Bi-214 at 935keV visible, but you said you want to leave the other bumps unlabeled, so you may have a reason. Is the unlabeled bump before Bi-214 at 609keV from Compton interactions? Greetings, Yeah, Bi214 at 934.06 keV is defini...