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14C Gas Counting: Is There Still a Future?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Pavel Povinec
Pavel Povinec*
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics, Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia
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Reviewed here are developments in low background proportional counters and chambers used for low-level internal gas counting of 14C. I have studied the influence of counter geometry and the nature of the gas filling on counter characteristics and describe in detail operational characteristics of multi-element proportional chambers. I also discuss detector developments for ultra-low-level gas counting based on a time projection chamber. My observations show that proportional and drift chambers, together with multichannel electronics operating on-line with a computer, open new possibilities in ultra-low-level gas counting.

Type
I. Sample Preparation and Measurement Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 34 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the 14th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1992 , pp. 406 - 413
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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