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==Methods of determining atomic concentration in Material==
 
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===Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy(ICP-OES)===
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===Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (multi-element AAS) ===
  
 
=Coincidence Counting Setup=
 
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Revision as of 17:38, 25 February 2014

Introduction

Methods of determining atomic concentration in Material

Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry(ICP-MS)

Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy(ICP-OES)

Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (multi-element AAS)

Coincidence Counting Setup

A_W_CAA_apparatus

Y-88 CAA

Run6980_Y88

Ba-133 CAA

BO-08-22-13


Useful commands

Converting CODA data file to ROOT

make sure the CODA and ROOT environmental variables are setup by source the following scripts

source ~/CODA/setup
source ~/ROOT/root/bin/thisroot.csh

Now change to the data subdirectory and execute the program to convert the data file to root

cd /data
~/CODA/CODAreader/ROOT_V5.30/V785V792/evio2nt -fr6994.dat > /dev/null

rename the file so it has the .root extension allowing ROOT to identify it in the browser

mv r6994 r6994.root


Calibration work

System's intrinsic err

Plot calibration parameters as a function of time

determine the variance of the parameters using several (>20) fits

Impact of higher order fits

Plot [math]E_{expected} - E_{fit} -vs- E_{expected}[/math]

Variance comes from several fits,.

Compare uncertainty when fit is E-vs-Channe to Channel-vs-E

Probably should use %error for the weighting


PAA_Research