BARC/PUB/2014/1484

 
 

Measurement of 222Rn and 220Rn decay product deposition velocities using SSNTD based passive detectors

 
     
 
Author(s)

Rout, R. P.; Mishra, R.; Prajith, R.; Jalaluddin, S.; Sapra, B. K.
(RP&AD)

Source

Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2014. Vol. 302 (3): pp. 1495-1499

ABSTRACT

In the present study, the deposition velocities of 222Rn/220Rn decay products were measured experimentally using SSNTD based passive detectors, direct radon progeny sensor (DRPS) and direct thoron progeny sensor (DTPS) and the results were compared with obtained values by Monte-Carlo simulations. In both cases, deposition velocities were found to be log-normally distributed and also the experimentally measured geometric mean (GM) and geometric standard deviation (GSD) of (0.12, 1.85) mh-1 for radon decay products and (0.07, 1.75) m h-1 for thoron decay products were found to be in good agreement with the simulated values.

 
 
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