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A new flexible prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (PGAA) station will be installed and operated at the FRM-II reactor in Garching at the beginning of the year 2006. The PGAA station has been moved from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland and is now being re-designed for three different experimental applications: PGAA instrument, cold neutron tomography setup and a compact Ge-array. Simulations of the beam guide have been carried out in order to yield the best conditions for each of the instruments, and are discussed here. A number of the PGAA applications are listed here. A new project dealing with a systematic measurement of bulky composition of small amount of meteorites (~100 mg) is proposed. Results of a test measurement of the Dhurmasala meteorite composition at the PGAA station at the Budapest Research Reactor are presented. Expected parameters of the PGAA facility at FRM-II are compared both with those at PSI and with the Budapest facility.
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Kudějová, P., Materna, T., Jolie, J. et al. On the construction of a new instrument for cold-neutron prompt gamma-ray activation analysis at the FRM-II. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 265, 221–227 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-005-0812-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-005-0812-8