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A Method of Measuring Hydrogen Isotopes in Surface Layers of Planetary Soils by Spectroscopy of Recoil Protons in Alpha Particle Elastic Scattering

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A theoretical and experimental feasibility study of possible determination of the hydrogen and deuterium concentrations in the surface layers of planetary bodies is presented. The method under study is the recoil proton and deuteron spectrometry of forward scattering in the course of elastic interaction of alpha particles with the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes. The spectra of recoil protons and deuterons were recorded using a prototype model of a hydrogen spectrometer, and these spectra were used to determine the hydrogen concentrations in the samples of different compositions.

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 83/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    B. N. Korchuganov, G. G. Dol'nikov, M. V. Gerasimov & O. F. Prilutskii

  2. Max-Planck Institute of Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

    R. Rider & G. Waenke

  3. Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago University, Chicago, USA

    T. Economou

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  1. B. N. Korchuganov
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Korchuganov, B.N., Dol'nikov, G.G., Gerasimov, M.V. et al. A Method of Measuring Hydrogen Isotopes in Surface Layers of Planetary Soils by Spectroscopy of Recoil Protons in Alpha Particle Elastic Scattering. Cosmic Research 42, 19–22 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COSM.0000017557.73717.89

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