Photon activation analysis of sand samples from Antalya in Turkey with a clinical electron linear accelerator

Canel Eke; Ismail Boztosun; Christian Segebade

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Photon activation analysis of sand samples from Antalya in Turkey with a clinical electron linear accelerator

Canel Eke , Ismail Boztosun and Christian Segebade

Published/Copyright: September 29, 2018

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From the journal Radiochimica Acta Volume 107 Issue 2

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of elemental analysis of sand samples by photon activation induced by high energy bremsstrahlung photons at an end point energy of 18 MeV from a clinical electron linear accelerator. The γ-ray spectra of the activated samples were collected using a high resolution spectrometer. Qualitative analysis of major and trace components of the samples (12 in total) was carried out whilst the spectra of eight of the samples were evaluated quantitatively. The contents of elements obtained by photon activation analysis were compared with values obtained by X-ray fluorescence.

Keywords: Photon activation analysis; bremsstrahlung photons; HPGe detector; sand material; X-ray fluorescence

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Research Fund of Akdeniz University, (Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005703, Project Number: 2014.03.0121.005). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Akdeniz University. We would like to thank Cemil EKE and Şükriye EKE for supports and their help to collect sand samples. We would like to thank the Physics Department of Karadeniz Technical University for the XRF results of the eight sand samples.

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Received: 2018-07-03

Accepted: 2018-09-04

Published Online: 2018-09-29

Published in Print: 2019-02-25

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