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1833-46
Workshop on Understanding and Evaluating RadioanalyticalMeasurement Uncertainty
Gyula KIS-BENEDEK
5 - 16 November 2007
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAAgency's Laboratories SeibersdorfChemistry Unit, A-2444 Seibersdorf
AUSTRIA
Uncertainty in gas proportional counting.
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Counting Uncertainty in Using Gas Proportional Counters
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Main Types of Proportional Counters
1. Gas Flow Proportional - with window (laboratory alpha-beta counters)- windowless
2. Air Proportional (alpha counting only)
3. Sealed proportional (e.g., BF3, 3He neutron detectors)
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Applications
• Gross alpha and or beta counting- Filter- Smear (wipe test) - Water (residue)- Soil,
• Sources from separated alpha or beta emitting radionuclides- Sr-90, Y-90 or C-14
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Basic Detector Theory
+ Anode wire
_Kathode
Electron avalanche
Incident radiation
Detector gas volume
Primary ionisationAr →Ar+ +e-
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Gas proportional detectors
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Basic Detector Theory
• Gain• Number of electrons reaching the anode wire
~ U (applied detector voltage bias)
• number of electrons produced by the particle~ Energy of the particle/Eigas
nNGain =
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Basic Detector Theory
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Beta background
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Alpha background
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Chi Square test for variances – equipment performance
Expected counting uncertainty :
Calculated standard deviationof n counting:
Chi square:
Hypothesis:Degree of freedom: n-1
N Nσ =
2 2* ( )
*( 1)
n n
i ii i
N
n N Ns
n n
−=
−
∑ ∑
22
2 *( 1)N
N
S nχσ
= −
0 1: ; : <N N N NH s H sσ σ=
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Sources
• Thick source – infinite thickness, saturation layer thicknessα: 0.02 gcm-2 , <3% efficiency, effect of humidity, structure of surface
• Fixed source size
• Variable source thickness Mass attenuation curve, Standard addition
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Attenuation Curve
y = -0.064Ln(x) + 0.13R2 = 0.997
0.3500
0.3700
0.3900
0.4100
0.4300
0.4500
0.4700
0.4900
0.0000 0.0050 0.0100 0.0150 0.0200 0.0250
Surface density (Sr-oxalate g/cm2)
Sr-9
0 +
Y-90
Cou
ntin
g Ef
ficie
ncy
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Efficiency – beta energy
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Determination of saturation layer thickness
1000.00
1500.00
2000.00
2500.00
3000.00
3500.00
4000.00
4500.00
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
K2SO4 gcm-2
beta CPM
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Alpha attenuation curve
Alpha counting efficiency
0
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
0.14
0 0.005 0.01 0.015
NaCl gcm-2
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Magnified picture of a 210Po / NaCl source
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Calibration
*st Bg
st
I IA pβ
ε−
=
Depends on layer thickness, composition, source/sample distribution on plate
Saturation layer thickness: ( )st Bg
calm
I If
A−
=
mA Bq/g
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Calculation of activity
*sample BG
source
i iA
pβε−
=
sample BGmsource
cal
i iA
f−
= Bq/g
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Corrections
• Decay- Calibration source/tracer- Reporting result to a reference date
- Decay/ingrowth during counting
• Recovery
*
1/ 2
ln 2;toA A e
tλ λ− ∆= =
*
01* ;
*
ct
cc
ei it
λ
λ
−−=
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Crosstalk Spillover
in
in in
iX
i iα β
α βα β α α
→ =+
in
in in
iX
i iβ α
β αβ α β β
→ =+
* *1c
i i X i Xi
X Xα α β α β β α
αβ α α β
→ →
→ →
− −=
− −* *
1c
i i X i Xi
X Xβ β α β α α β
ββ α α β
→ →
→ →
− −=
− −
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40K
40K 40Ca
Eγ: 1460.8 keV(10.7%)
β−
EX
t1/2: 1.277E9 Y
EβMAX: 1.311 MeV(89.3%)
40Ar
Isotopic abundance: 0.000117Am: 30.9 Bq/g K
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Calculation of uncertainties 1
Approach 1 The combined uncertainties were obtained from the components as using the
uuu 2
B
2
ABA+=
± ,
Bu
Auu 2
2
B2
2
AB*A
B*A += and Bu
Auu 2
2
B2
2
AA/B B
A+= and
uλutueu 2
t
22
λ
22t*λ
**AeA 0
t*λ0
++= , λ=ln2/t1/2, formulae, breaking the used to
formulae for calculation of the activity concentration to expressions covered by one of the ones above.
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Calculation of uncertainties 2
Contribution, % : [(δε/δxi)2.uxi
2.100]/uε2
SF=(δ y / δxi), uy=ΣSFi^2*ui^2
Using the partial derivatives method
Analysis and evaluation of uncertainty sources:
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Calculation of uncertainties 3• using the spreadsheet (Kragten) method
Quantulus CAL2-05/1Table 1 Spreadsheet Method for Uncertainty Calculation in the Efficiency. Calibration of Quantulus for the Determination of 210Pb
Parameter xi ts,CAL mvial mvial+carr.sol cPb mvial mvial+standard A0 210Pb fgravimetry mfilter
Unit min g g g/g g g - - gValue xi 60 14.9364 16.03654 0.0274 16.03672 17.1326 12.45 0.70185 0.03654
uxi 0 0.00010 0.00010 0.000020565 0.00010 0.00010 0.26 0.00041 0.00010Parameter xi
mvial 14.93635 14.93645 14.93635 14.93635 14.93635 14.93635 14.93635 14.93635 14.93635mvial+carr.sol 16.03654 16.03654 16.03664 16.03654 16.03654 16.03654 16.03654 16.03654 16.03654
cPb 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274 0.0274mvial 16.03672 16.03672 16.03672 16.03672 16.03682 16.03672 16.03672 16.03672 16.03672
mvial+standard 17.13260 17.13260 17.13260 17.13260 17.13260 17.13270 17.13260 17.13260 17.13260A0 210Pb 12.4500 12.4500 12.4500 12.4500 12.4500 12.4500 12.7100 12.4500 12.4500fgravimetry 0.70185 0.70185 0.70185 0.70185 0.70185 0.70185 0.70185 0.70226 0.70185
mfilter 0.03654 0.03654 0.03654 0.03654 0.03654 0.03654 0.03654 0.03654 0.03664mfilter+Pb(C2O4) 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377 0.07377
IACAL 349.654 349.654 349.654 349.654 349.654 349.654 349.654 349.654 349.654IABG 1.772 1.772 1.772 1.772 1.772 1.772 1.772 1.772 1.772IBCAL 24.957 24.957 24.957 24.957 24.957 24.957 24.957 24.957 24.957IBBG 0.703 0.703 0.703 0.703 0.703 0.703 0.703 0.703 0.703fA/B 1.049 1.049 1.049 1.049 1.049 1.049 1.049 1.049 1.049t 391564800 391564800 391564800 391564800 391564800 391564800 391564800 391564800 391564800
λ 210Pb 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10 9.85E-10
εPb-210 0.669 0.669 0.669 0.669 0.669 0.669 0.655 0.668 0.671uε Kragten 0.01511
uε parc. Der. 0.01537εi,Pb - εPb -6.078E-05 6.078E-05 5.016E-04 6.103E-05 -6.102E-05 -1.368E-02 -3.904E-04 1.801E-03
Σ (ε i,Pb - εPb)2 2.283E-04 (ε i,Pb - εPb)2 3.695E-09 3.695E-09 2.516E-07 3.725E-09 3.723E-09 1.871E-04 1.524E-07 3.244E-06uε/ε, % 2.26 (ε i,Pb - εPb)2
3.69E-09 3.69E-09 2.52E-07 3.72E-09 3.72E-09 1.95E-04 1.53E-07 3.23E-06
SF by Kragten δε/δxi -0.6078 0.6078 24.3888 0.6103 -0.6102 -0.0526 -0.9523 18.0108
SF by Parc. Deriv. δε/δxi -0.608 -0.608 24.389 0.610 -0.6102 -0.0537 -0.9528 17.96244
Contribution, % Kragten 1.62E-03 1.62E-03 0.11 1.63E-03 1.63E-03 81.96 0.07 1.42Contribution, % parc. Der. 1.56E-03 1.56E-03 0.11 1.58E-03 1.58E-03 82.57 0.06 1.37
Contribution, % = [(δε/δxi)2.uxi
2.100]/uε2