Re: Trinitite
Suppose your Pu is Pu-243 you¡¯ll get an Am decay x-ray Pu-239 a U x-ray. If its Np-234 you get a U decay x-ray, if its Np-237 it¡¯s a Pa x-ray. For Pa-234 you get a U x-ray if its Pa231 you get an
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Dude
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#1473
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Re: Trinitite
" A Pu decay U x-ray looks like a Pa U decay x-ray or any other U x-ray"
I mentioned Pa-234m decay to U-234 before. Pa-234m decay can be eliminated by the lack of other peaks at the appropriate
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1472
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Re: Trinitite
That was not missed by them even though it¡¯s a wet chem. Pu extraction aliquot, but you cannot assign these x-rays to any particular source. So its labeled a U x-ray not Pu. A Pu decay U x-ray
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Dude
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#1471
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Re: Trinitite
An interesting chart from a study by Los Alamos National Lab concerning precision mass spectrum analysis of Trinitite. It shows there is an across the board 3 orders of magnitude more Pu-239 atoms per
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1470
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The Crayola challenge
It has been rumored that Crayola (of crayons fame) has a new brilliant blue
crayon called bluetiful. What is its elemental composition is the question.
The first to submit an MCA file documenting
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Dude
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#1469
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Re: Si pin xrf ..1st go
Taray,
Looks good with the 2048. There are two things that could be done for your setup. The first is the count time, you really need much more count time to resolve things especially close lines and
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Dude
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#1468
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Re: Supplements exposed
Charles?
I plan to do that next
Can just let it run by itself for hours
Have seen it working?
But not keen in this case
The composition of these supplements may be altered by
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taray singh <sukhjez@...>
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#1467
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Re: Supplements exposed
Taray,
So why don't you let this run for a long time so you can get some decent
counts? Se is almost certainly there but to identify the other peaks with
certainty you will need more than 1024
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Charles David Young
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#1466
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Re: Si pin xrf ..1st go
OK, your Np L X-Rays are spot on, so good job.You are getting no 59.5 backscatter?Geo
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1465
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Re: Si pin xrf ..1st go
GeoYes?Used centroidIt was quite a struggle?The software has a bad habit of rejecting?Taray
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taray singh <sukhjez@...>
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#1464
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Re: Si pin xrf ..1st go
Hi Taray, did you re calibrate after changing to 2048 channels?
I'll be glad to walk you through it if needed.
Geo
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020 8:35:07 AM
Subject: Re:
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1463
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Re: Supplements exposed
Charles
I repeated the scan with some tabs in a plastic
The spectrum is quite alike
Did a 2046 channel with gain upgrade
Not a long spectrum..
I am primarily interested in scanning some supplements as
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taray singh <sukhjez@...>
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#1462
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
Conclusions-
Based on the short tests of each available peaking time settings, in the first post of this topic:
4.8us (what we've been using until now), is adequate and could be retained for general
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1461
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Edited
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Re: Si pin xrf ..1st go
Dud
I upgraded to 2048 with higher gain .
I repeated the x ray apron
It? is? Pb/Sn like you? said
Pb /Bi? lines are tricky and adjacent on the periodic table
Taray
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taray singh <sukhjez@...>
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#1460
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
ATTACHED:
,mca for 19.2us Peaking time with same settings as 4.8us PT
.mca for 19.2us Peaking time with new auto tune fast-slow routine run
To auto tube the source must be removed, which is all part
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1459
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
Geo / Charles,
Changing only the peaking time is not going to give you a good idea of what an optimal setting should be. These things interact with each other and need to be set together, The noise
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Dude
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#1458
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
Run it for the same time change only one variable at a time
Dud
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 8:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [XRF] Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
This next scan
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Dude
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#1457
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
No not auto resetting LLD etc. I believe you must remove the source to do that. I'll include that on the way back down from 25.6 us which to my eye is the sweet spot.
This series is looking at gross
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1456
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
Geo,
Did you auto reset the fast and slow thresholds for the 9.6 usec count? Note the input count well exceeds your total count meaning there is still a lot of low energy noise that needs to be taken
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Dude
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#1455
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Re: Si-PIN Detector PEAKING-TIME-TEST
I don't know why Charles. That's more a question to be answered by a digital expert.
George Dowell
Geo
To: "XRF" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 10:56:10 AM
Subject: Re:
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GEOelectronics@...
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#1454
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