Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results
Considering the importance of deuterium in nuclear science including medical and industrial researches such as (BNCT) and nuclear reactors respectively, it is important to study various possible ways in addition to common methods for measuring its concentration. This study is an effort to measure de...
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| author | Saeed Salahi Mahdieh Mokhtari Dorostkar Akbar Abdi Saray |
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| description | Considering the importance of deuterium in nuclear science including medical and industrial researches such as (BNCT) and nuclear reactors respectively, it is important to study various possible ways in addition to common methods for measuring its concentration. This study is an effort to measure deuterium concentration using PGNAA. The main idea is to calculate the area under 2.23 MeV gamma-rays photo peak resulting from neutron collision with Hydrogen atoms which are in mix with deuterium in samples. The study carried out by both simulation and experiment. Monte Carlo MCNPX2.6 code has been used for simulation and based on its acceptable results an experimental setup has been arranged. The coordination of results was in the range of R = 0.99 and R = 0.98 in simulation and experiment respectively. The accuracy of the study has been investigated by measuring the concentration of an unknown sample by both PGNAA and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) methods in which there were acceptable correlation between these two methods. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-185d8a3ce1d145e193ffa4cf6fb48f182022-12-22T03:57:32ZengElsevierNuclear Engineering and Technology1738-57332022-11-01541142314235Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation resultsSaeed Salahi0Mahdieh Mokhtari Dorostkar1Akbar Abdi Saray2Reactor and Nuclear Safety Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, AEOI, IranDepartment of Physics, Urmia University, Urmia, IranDepartment of Physics, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran; Corresponding author.Considering the importance of deuterium in nuclear science including medical and industrial researches such as (BNCT) and nuclear reactors respectively, it is important to study various possible ways in addition to common methods for measuring its concentration. This study is an effort to measure deuterium concentration using PGNAA. The main idea is to calculate the area under 2.23 MeV gamma-rays photo peak resulting from neutron collision with Hydrogen atoms which are in mix with deuterium in samples. The study carried out by both simulation and experiment. Monte Carlo MCNPX2.6 code has been used for simulation and based on its acceptable results an experimental setup has been arranged. The coordination of results was in the range of R = 0.99 and R = 0.98 in simulation and experiment respectively. The accuracy of the study has been investigated by measuring the concentration of an unknown sample by both PGNAA and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) methods in which there were acceptable correlation between these two methods.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573322003035Heavy waterPGNAAMCNPXDeuteriumConcentration |
| spellingShingle | Saeed Salahi Mahdieh Mokhtari Dorostkar Akbar Abdi Saray Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results Nuclear Engineering and Technology Heavy water PGNAA MCNPX Deuterium Concentration |
| title | Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results |
| title_full | Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results |
| title_short | Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results |
| title_sort | measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis pgnaa in comparison with mcnpx simulation results |
| topic | Heavy water PGNAA MCNPX Deuterium Concentration |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573322003035 |
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