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The new prompt gamma-activation analysis facility at Budapest

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Prompt gamma-activation analysis (PGAA) is an important complementary technique to conventional instrumental activation analysis that can be successfully used in a number of cases when INAA is not applicable. Therefore, a PGAA facility has been constructed at the recently refurbished and upgraded Budapest Research Reactor. It occupies the end position of a new curved themal guide of 30 m length and 2.5×10 cm2 cross section which provides a clean beam of low energy neutrons. The sophisticated HPGe-BGO γ-ray spectrometer system can be operated in Compton-suppression and pair-spectrometer modes simultaneously. The octal splitting of the main BGO improves efficient pair mode operation when coincidences between pairs of opposite segments and the HPGe detector are required separately. Gamma-gamma coincidence measurements will also be possible when the new multiparameter data acquisition system is completed. One of the main tasks at the new facility will be the accumulation of new spectroscopic data for detector calibration and standardisation, as well as for the construction of a more accurate prompt γ-ray library for the chemical elements. Various applications are planned, such as the determination of hydrogen in fullerenes and of toxic trace elements in environmental samples.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Physics, Institute of Isotopes, POB 77, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary

    G. Molnár, T. Belgya, L. Dabolczi, B. Fazekas, Zs. Révay, Á. Veres, Z. Kiss & J. Östör

  2. Institute of Physics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

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Molnár, G., Belgya, T., Dabolczi, L. et al. The new prompt gamma-activation analysis facility at Budapest. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 215, 111–115 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109886

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