Characterisation of a radionuclide specific laboratory detector system for the metallurgical industry by Monte Carlo simulations

Jaroslav Šolc (1) , Pavel Dryák (1) , Hannah Moser (2) , Thierry Branger (3) , Eduardo García-Toraño (4) , Virginia Peyrés (4) , Faidra Tzika (5) , Guillaume Lutter (5) , Marco Capogni (6) , Aldo Fazio (6) , Aurelian Luca (7) , Branko Vodenik (8) , Carlos Manta Oliveira (9) , Andre Saraiva (9) , Laszlo Szucs (10) , Tomasz Dziel (11) , Oleksiy Burda (12) , Dirk V. Arnold (12) , Jozef Martinkovič (13) , Teemu Siiskonen (14) , Aleksi Mattila (14)

1 Czech Metrology Institute
2 BEV - Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen [Wien]
3 LNHB - Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel
4 CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid]
5 IRMM - JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements [Geel]
6 ENEA - Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile = Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
7 IFIN-HH
8 IJS - Jozef Stefan Institute [Ljubljana]
9 Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
10 MKEH - Magyar Kereskedelmi Engedelyezesi Hivatal
11 NCBJ - Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych
12 PTB - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt [Braunschweig]
13 Slovenský Metrologický Ústav
14 STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority [Helsinki]

One of the outputs of the European Metrology Research Programme project "Ionising radiation metrology for the metallurgical industry" (MetroMetal) was a recommendation on a novel radionuclide specific detector system optimised for the measurement of radioactivity in metallurgical samples. The detection efficiency of the recommended system for the standards of cast steel, slag and fume dust developed within the project was characterized by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations performed using different MC codes. Capabilities of MC codes were also tested for simulation of true coincidence summing (TCS) effects for several radionuclides of interest in the metallurgical industry. The TCS correction factors reached up to 32% showing that the TCS effects are of high importance in close measurement geometries met in routine analyses of metallurgical samples.

Keywords: Metrology; Ionising radiation; Gamma-ray spectrometry; Coincidence summing; Metallurgy; Monte Carlo simulation; EURAMET

Domains: Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Modeling and Simulation

Jaroslav Šolc, Pavel Dryák, Hannah Moser, Thierry Branger, Eduardo García-Toraño, et al.. Characterisation of a radionuclide specific laboratory detector system for the metallurgical industry by Monte Carlo simulations. Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2015, 116, pp.189 - 193. ⟨10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.01.003⟩. ⟨cea-01863560⟩