170048 10% Se Soil Mixture Analysis

Sample 170048 was a 10% mixture of selenium and soil. The mass of the inner selenium is 0.5145g, while the mass of the outer selenium is 0.1245g. The method used was the thin window analysis method as explained here LB Thesis Thin Window Analysis. Below is a table of values to continue with the analysis of the selenium soil mixture:

	0<t<500	1210<t<1750	2430<t<2930	3616<t<3831
Thin Window Histogram
Expanded Window Histogram
Signal in Thin Window	[math] 8.881 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 8.008 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 6.033 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 2.033 \times 10^4 [/math]
Signal in Expanded Window	[math] 1.15 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 9.739 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 7.2 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 2.403 \times 10^4 [/math]
[math] S_{Expanded} - S_{Thin} [/math]	26190	17310	11670	3700
Integrated Background	15358 +/- 82	9770 +/- 64.8	6204 +/- 51.8	2110 +/- 30
Signal - Background	[math] 7.3452 \times 10^4 \pm 2.6190 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 7.0310 \times 10^4 \pm 1.7310 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 5.4126 \times 10 ^4 \pm 1.1670 \times 10^4 [/math]	[math] 1.8220 \times 10^4 \pm 0.370012 \times 10^4 [/math]
Runtime (s)	500	540	500	215
Rate (Hz)	146.9 +/- 52.38	130.20 +/- 32.06	108.25 +/- 22.34	84.74 +/- 17.21
Integral Decay Correction (Hz)	154.43 +/- 55.06	137.47 +/- 33.84	113.80 +/- 24.43	86.59 +/- 17.59
Dead Time (%)	6.59 +/- 0.43	3.95 +/- 0.42	2.26 +/- 0.33	1.65 +/- 0.34
Dead Time Corrected Signal (Hz)	165.32 +/- 58.95	143.12 +/- 35.24	116.43 +/- 25.00	88.04 +/- 17.89
.Dat File Entry For HL Plot	5.11 +/- 0.36	4.96 +/- 0.25	4.76 +/- 0.21	4.48 +/- 0.20

Below is a table for the pure selenium sample outside of the aluminum cylinder:

	615<t<1115	1850<t<2350	3015<t<3515
Thin Window Histogram
Expanded Window Histogram
Signal in Thin Window	[math] 2.072 \times 10^5 [/math]	[math] 1.614 \times 10^5[/math]	[math]1.152 \times 10^5 [/math]
Signal in Expanded Window	[math] 2.284 \times 10^5[/math]	[math]1.804 \times 10^5 [/math]	[math]1.329 \times 10^5 [/math]
[math] S_{Expanded} - S_{Thin} [/math]	21200	19000	17700
Integrated Background	[math]10070 \pm 65.2 [/math]	[math] 9172 \pm 62.4 [/math]	[math] 7764 \pm 58.6 [/math]
Signal - Background	[math] 197130 \pm 21200.10 [/math]	[math] 152228 \pm 19000.10[/math]	[math] 107436 \pm 17700.10 [/math]
Runtime (s)	500	500	500
Rate (Hz)	[math] 394.26 \pm 42.40 [/math]	[math] 304.46 \pm 38.00 [/math]	[math] 214.87 \pm 35.40 [/math]
Integral Decay Correction (Hz)	[math] 414.47 \pm 44.57 [/math]	[math] 320.07 \pm 39.95 [/math]	[math] 225.89 \pm 37.21 [/math]
Dead Time (%)	[math] 0.84 \pm 0.16 [/math]	[math] 0.65 \pm 0.15 [/math]	[math] 0.53 \pm 0.14 [/math]
Dead Time Corrected Signal (Hz)	[math] 417.98 \pm 44.95 [/math]	[math] 322.16 \pm 40.21 [/math]	[math] 227.09 \pm 37.41 [/math]
.Dat File Entry For HL Plot	[math] 6.03 \pm 0.11 [/math]	[math] 5.77 \pm 0.12 [/math]	[math] 5.43 \pm 0.16 [/math]

Nickel Information

LB 170048 Nickel Foil Consistency Check