All “Environmental Radioactivity” experiments

Radon passive measurement

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5630EN educational kit. Equipment: SP5630EN - Environmental kit Model i-Spector - S2570B Samples Description Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube Empty Beaker & Test Sample, Fertilizer and Rock, Canisters of Activated Carbon, Calibration Crystal Purpose

Test Sample Identification

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5630EN educational kit. Equipment: SP5630EN - Environmental kit Model i-Spector - S2570B Samples Description Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube Empty Beaker & Test Sample, Fertilizer and Rock, Canisters of Activated Carbon, Calibration Crystal Purpose

Samples Comparison

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment This activity shows how to compare different spectra together. Fundamentals Spectra comparison is a very common procedure in statistics and physics and consist of the superposition of different spectra, taken in the same conditions, or normalized to a

Soil sample identification

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5630EN educational kit. Equipment: SP5630EN - Environmental kit Model i-Spector - S2570B Samples Description Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube Empty Beaker & Test Sample, Fertilizer and Rock, Canisters of Activated Carbon, Calibration Crystal Purpose

Fertilizer and photopeak identification

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5630EN educational kit. Equipment: SP5630EN - Environmental kit Model i-Spector - S2570B Samples Description Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube Empty Beaker & Test Sample, Fertilizer and Rock, Canisters of Activated Carbon, Calibration Crystal Purpose

Background Measurements

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5630EN educational kit. Equipment: SP5630EN - Environmental kit Model i-Spector - S2570B Samples Description Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube Empty Beaker & Test Sample, Fertilizer and Rock, Canisters of Activated Carbon, Calibration Crystal Purpose

Energy calibration of System based on LYSO crystal and Fertilizer sample

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5630EN educational kit. Equipment: SP5630EN - Environmental kit Model i-Spector - S2570B Samples Description Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube Empty Beaker & Test Sample, Fertilizer and Rock, Canisters of Activated Carbon, Calibration Crystal Purpose

Training Future Engineers to Be Ghostbusters: Hunting for the Spectral Environmental Radioactivity

September 24th, 2021| |CAEN Experiments, Environmental radioactivity

Although environmental radioactivity is all around us, the collective public imagination often associates a negative feeling to this natural phenomenon. To increase the familiarity with this phenomenon we have designed, implemented, and tested an interdisciplinary educational activity for pre-collegiate students in which nuclear engineering and computer science are ancillary to the comprehension of basic physics concepts.

Erasmus Mundus Program: Environmental Measurements with iSpector

September 24th, 2021| |CAEN Experiments, Environmental radioactivity

In this report the radioactivity measurement of samples usually found in the environment was studied, using iSpector Digital (Intelligent Silicon Photomultiplier Tube with Digital MCA). After the energy calibration of the system based on LYSO crystal and the calibration verification and tuning with Potassium Chloride sample, the data analysis of the Pozzolana Sample Spectrum as well as the Background measurement was done. Furthermore, the test sample radiation was identified.