Accession Number:

ADA516455

Title:

Production of Samples of Individual Radioxenon Isotopes Through Neutron Irradiation of Stable Xenon Gas

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LAB RICHLAND WA

Personal Author(s):

• Haas, Derek A.
• Biegalski, Steven R.
• Biegalski, Kendra M.

Report Date:

2008-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

The Spectral Deconvolution Analysis Tool SDAT software was developed to improve counting statistics and detection limits for nuclear explosion radionuclide measurements. SDAT utilizes spectral deconvolution spectroscopy techniques and can analyze both beta-gamma coincidence spectra for radioxenon isotopes and high-resolution HPGe spectra from aerosol monitors. The deconvolution algorithm of the SDAT requires a library of beta-gamma coincidence spectra of individual radioxenon isotopes to determine isotopic ratios in a sample. In order to get experimentally produced spectra of the individual isotopes, we have irradiated enriched samples of 130Xe, 132Xe, and 134Xe gas with a neutron beam from the TRIGA reactor at The University of Texas. The samples produced were counted in an Automated Radioxenon SamplerAnalyzer ARSA style beta-gamma coincidence detector.

Descriptors:

• *RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES
• *SPECTROSCOPY
• *NEUTRON IRRADIATION
• *XENON
• SYMPOSIA
• AEROSOLS
• DETECTION
• MONITORING
• COUNTING METHODS
• STATISTICS
• GASES
• SAMPLING
• IRRADIATION
• GROUND BASED
• MULTISPECTRAL
• NUCLIDES
• CONVOLUTION
• NEUTRON BEAMS
• RATIOS
• MEASUREMENT
• SOFTWARE TOOLS
• ALGORITHMS
• NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS

Subject Categories:

• Isotopes
• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE