Activity standardization of two enriched < sup > 40 < /sup > K solutions for the determination of decay scheme parameters and the half-life

Appl Radiat Isot. 2022 Jul 8;188:110362. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110362. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this paper we describe experiments on two enriched 40K solutions to accurately determine decay data. The first solution was measured in 2004/2005 by means of a gamma-ray spectrometer with low background and a liquid scintillation (LS) counter to apply the CIEMAT/NIST efficiency tracing method. A combination of results yields an emission probability of the 1461 keV gamma-rays of Pγ = 0.1030(11) which is lower than current results of data evaluations. The activity concentration of the second solution was also determined by means of LS counting, but here, the CIEMAT/NIST efficiency tracing method as well as the TDCR method were applied. Again, the result was combined with that of independent gamma-ray spectrometry and the gamma-ray emission probability was found to be Pγ = 0.1029(9) in good agreement with the result obtained from the first solution. A combination of both experiments yields Pγ = 0.1029(9). The spectra of a TriCarb LS counter were carefully analyzed and a beta minus emission probability [Formula: see text] = 0.8954(14) was determined. The new results for Pγ and [Formula: see text] indicate that the overall probability of the decay via EC in recent data evaluations is overestimated. The LS counting efficiencies were computed with a stochastic model and up-to-date calculations of the beta spectrum and fractional EC probabilities were used. The final act...

Source: Applied Radiation and Isotopes - July 15, 2022 Category: Radiology Authors: Karsten Kossert Yuri Amelin Dirk Arnold Renaud Merle Xavier Mougeot Michael Schmiedel Daniel Zapata-Garc ía Source Type: research