Low-level liquid scintillation counting in an underground laboratory

Schotterer, Ulrich; Oeschger, Hans (1980). Low-level liquid scintillation counting in an underground laboratory. Radiocarbon, 22(2), pp. 505-511. Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona 10.1017/S0033822200009826

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A commercial liquid scintillation counter (LSC) was tested for its ability of low level counting (LLC) in two underground laboratories (70m of water equivalent cover). Reduction of total background and background components compared to the normal counting laboratory (5m w.e. cover) up to a factor of 9 depending on the energy range and the shielding of counting cell and laboratory walls were obtained. First experiments with a large volume cell (50cc) led to a modern 14C net effect of 425cpm and a corresponding background of 1.6cpm.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Climate and Environmental Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Schotterer, Ulrich Hermann

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0033-8222

Publisher:

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import 2

Date Deposited:

30 Aug 2021 12:23

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:52

Publisher DOI:

10.1017/S0033822200009826

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/158691

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/158691

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