Technical note: Quantifying uranium-series disequilibrium in natural samples for dosimetric dating – Part 1: gamma spectrometry

Mauz, Barbara; Nolan, Paul J.; Appleby, Peter G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-213-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-213-2022

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14 Apr 2022

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| 14 Apr 2022

Technical note: Quantifying uranium-series disequilibrium in natural samples for dosimetric dating – Part 1: gamma spectrometry

Barbara Mauz, Paul J. Nolan, and Peter G. Appleby

Data sets

NIST Standard Reference Database 126, Tables of X-Ray Mass Attenuation Coefficients and Mass Energy-Absorption Coefficients from 1 keV to 20 MeV for Elements Z=1 to 92 and 48 Additional Substances of Dosimetric Interest J. H. Hubbell and S. M. Seltzer https://doi.org/10.18434/T4D01F

Reference Materials characterized for Radionuclides International Atomic Energy Agency https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/ReferenceMaterials/Pages/Index-for-Radionuclides.aspx

The NUDAT/PCNUDAT program for nuclear data R. R. Kinsey, C. L. Dunford, J. K. Tuli, and T. W. Burrows https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat3/

Model code and software

Application Notes Mirion https://www.mirion.com/learning-center/application-notes

Ortec software package Ortec https://www.ortec-online.com

Notes on the use of the program gf3 D. C. Radford https://radware.phy.ornl.gov/gf3/gf3.html

Short summary

It is of critical importance to dosimetric dating techniques that the quantity of the radiation...