Radon emanation from dust of varying composition and&nbsp;size

Meng, Yue; Busenitz, Jerry; Piepke, Andreas; Tsang, Raymond; Wu, Mengmeng; Yao, Yukun

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/10/p10035

Radon emanation from dust of varying composition and size

Journal Article · Fri Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/10/p10035· OSTI ID:2367566

Meng, Yue ^[1]; Busenitz, Jerry ^[2]; Piepke, Andreas ^[2]; Tsang, Raymond ^[2]; Wu, Mengmeng ^[3]; Yao, Yukun ^[4]

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China); Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sichuan Research Institute, Chengdu (China); University of Alabama
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (China)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

²²²Rn emanating from environmental dust constitutes an important background component for many low-energy, low-rate experiments. Radon emanation rates from dust and rock, thus, are important for experiment planning. In this paper, we report measured radon emanation fractions for five types of dry dust differing in grain size and composition. Furthermore, these data were obtained by a novel technique in γ-spectroscopy, measuring emanated and non-emanated ²²²Rn progeny activities as well as the parent ²²⁶Ra activity in a time series. The range of observed radon emanation fractions is (3.7 ± 2.0)% to (16.2 ± 0.9)%. Four of the five samples are standardized samples available commercially, so additional investigations of these samples may be readily carried out.

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Research Organization:: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012447

OSTI ID:: 2367566

Journal Information:: Journal of Instrumentation, Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 17; ISSN 1748-0221

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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