Detecting Environmental Radioactivity
This textbook presents the principles and methods for the measurement of radioactivity in the environment. In this regard, specific low-level radiation counting and spectrometry or mass spectrometry techniques are discussed, including sources, distribution, levels and dynamics of radioactivity in na...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Graduate Texts in Physics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Radioactivity: history and phenomenology
- Radioactivity: decay law, definitions and units
- Natural and Artificial radioactivity
- Environmental Radioactivity
- Levels and behaviour of Environmental Radioactivity
- Radiological impact. Radiation dosimetry
- Principles of radiation detection: interaction of radiation with matter
- Principles of radiation detection: counting and spectrometry
- Gas ionization detectors
- Scintillation detectors
- Semiconductor detectors
- Dosimeters, other detectors and specific designs
- Radiochemistry for environmental samples
- Principles of Low-Level Counting and Spectrometry
- Low-Level Counting and Spectrometry Techniques
- Principles of Mass Spectrometry
- Principles of Particle Accelerators
- Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)
- Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)