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Variations in isotopic abundance provide useful information for various scientific fields. Herein we performed a feasibility study by non-destructive isotopic analysis of negative muons. We irradiated two lead plate samples, one with the natural isotopic composition and one enriched with 208Pb, with negative muons and observed the gamma rays from 208Tl with a half-life of 3 min generated via muon absorption by 208Pb during muon irradiation. The isotopic abundance of 208Pb in natPb was successfully determined without sample destruction from the gamma ray intensity to be 69%, which agreed well with the mass spectrometry results.
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We thank K. Hamada and S. Doiuchi (WDB EUREKA) for their kind help with the muonic X-ray measurements. The muon experiments at the Materials and Life Science Experimental facility of J-PARC were performed under a user program (Proposal Nos. 2016B0207 and 2017A0177). This research was partially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (18H05457, B01 team of “Toward new frontiers: Encounter and synergy of state-of-the-art astronomical detectors and exotic quantum beams”) and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (18K11922).
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Kudo, T., Ninomiya, K., Strasser, P. et al. Development of a non-destructive isotopic analysis method by gamma-ray emission measurement after negative muon irradiation. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 322, 1299–1303 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06682-8
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