Beta/alpha continuous air monitor
Abstract
A single deep layer silicon detector in combination with a microcomputer, recording both alpha and beta activity and the energy of each pulse, distinquishing energy peaks using a novel curve fitting technique to reduce the natural alpha counts in the energy region where plutonium and other transuranic alpha emitters are present, and using a novel algorithm to strip out radon daughter contribution to actual beta counts. 7 figs.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6042283
- Patent Number(s):
- 7211647
- Application Number:
- ON: DE89011809
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE {
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-76ID01570
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; AIR QUALITY; MONITORING; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; DESIGN; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA PARTICLES; BETA PARTICLES; INVENTIONS; MICROPROCESSORS; RADON; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; ACTINIDES; CHARGED PARTICLES; COMPUTERS; DETECTION; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FLUIDS; GASES; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; NONMETALS; RARE GASES; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; 440101* - Radiation Instrumentation- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments; 990220 - Computers, Computerized Models, & Computer Programs- (1987-1989)
Citation Formats
Becker, G. K., and Martz, D. E. Beta/alpha continuous air monitor. United States: N. p., 1988.
Web.
Becker, G. K., & Martz, D. E. Beta/alpha continuous air monitor. United States.
Becker, G. K., and Martz, D. E. Mon .
"Beta/alpha continuous air monitor". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6042283.
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title = {Beta/alpha continuous air monitor},
author = {Becker, G. K. and Martz, D. E.},
abstractNote = {A single deep layer silicon detector in combination with a microcomputer, recording both alpha and beta activity and the energy of each pulse, distinquishing energy peaks using a novel curve fitting technique to reduce the natural alpha counts in the energy region where plutonium and other transuranic alpha emitters are present, and using a novel algorithm to strip out radon daughter contribution to actual beta counts. 7 figs.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
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volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1988},
month = {6}
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