Uranium without daughters
-
Geoff
- Posts: 141
- Joined: 01 May 2015, 12:21
Uranium without daughters
The spectrum is from .5 grams of U3O8 in a glass vial, collected for 14,000 seconds with my 20x100mm NaI detector in a tungsten shield. Looks to be a pretty standard spectrum of 235-U and 238-U.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
-
valentin
- Posts: 22
- Joined: 08 May 2015, 23:59
Re: Uranium without daughters
That is pretty cool. With uranium-ore, these peaks are mostly "burried below" all the scattered gammas from daughter decays.
-
pietkuip
- Posts: 56
- Joined: 29 Apr 2015, 06:23
Re: Uranium without daughters
So that is the tungsten K-alpha line at 59 keV?
Is that a reason to use a tungsten shield, to see actinide K-alphas?
Is that a reason to use a tungsten shield, to see actinide K-alphas?
-
Geoff
- Posts: 141
- Joined: 01 May 2015, 12:21
Re: Uranium without daughters
It would appear to be from tungsten xrays. I only use the tungsten shielding because I have it. I could make one out of lead, but the tungsten is more dense and much cleaner.
