All “Nuclear Physics and 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 DifficultExecution TimeData AnalysisRadioactive SourcesYesNo 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 of the experiment Record the

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

Statistics

Download printable version DifficultExecution TimeData AnalysisRadioactive SourcesYesNo Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5620CH educational kit. If you don’t have this kit, choose your own from the following list to visualize the related experiment guide: SP5600AN/D - Educational Beta Kit Equipment: SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter Model SP5621 SP5622 (x2) Description Coincidence

The EasyPET: a novel concept for an educational cost-effective positron emission 2D scanner

September 24th, 2021| |CAEN Experiments, Nuclear Imaging - PET, Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity, Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity

The EasyPET concept proposed here, protected under a patent by the University of Aveiro, aims to realize a simple and affordable small dimension Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner. This innovative system is based on a single pair of detectors and a rotating mechanism with two degrees of freedom reproducing the functionalities of an entire PET ring. A 2D imaging prototype has been designed, commissioned and engineered, targeted to high level education for physics, engineering and nuclear medicine students. In this paper the performance of the prototype is reported, with a focus on the imaging capability and on the measurement of the uncertainty in the reconstruction of the source position. In addition, a detailed analysis is dedicated to the slice sensitivity and in particular to the effect of the energy threshold on the coincidence event selection.

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.