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Application of the single comparator method to instrumental photon activation analysis

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Instrumental photon activation analysis (IPAA) is nondestructive and multi-elemental analysis method like instrumental neutron activation analysis. We applied the single comparator method to IPAA to determine the elemental mass fractions in various types of reference samples using only an Ni comparator instead of using standard samples for each element. The samples were irradiated by bremsstrahlung with three different maximum energy from electron accelerators at different two Universities. Compared to reference values, most of the determined results were within ± 20%, among which many were within ± 10%. The yield ratio values used in this study can be used for any accelerators.

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The authors thank Drs. K. Tsukada and H. Kikunaga, as well as the LINAC crew members of the Research Center for Electron Photon Science, Tohoku University, for invaluable while conducting the experiments. This study was carried out partially under auspices of the visiting Researcher’s Program of the Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University.

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    MD. Sultanur Reza, Rihito Taniguchi, Jyunya Kaneko & Yasuji Oura

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Reza, M.S., Taniguchi, R., Kaneko, J. et al. Application of the single comparator method to instrumental photon activation analysis. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 2609–2619 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08309-x

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