MSc Lab Manual

• Introduction and Information
  • General Introduction
  • Aims and Objectives
  • Health and Safety
    • General precautions
    • Radioactive sources
    • Toxic materials
    • High voltage and cables
    • Notes on radiation units and dose limits
    • Radioactive sources requiring special handling
  • Assessment
    • Laboratory Reports
    • Laboratory Notebook
  • Plagiarism
  • Notes on Detectors
    • Poisson statistics and energy resolution
    • Detection efficiency
    • Statistics of counting
    • Errors on centroids and FWHM
    • The ROOT Analyis Framework
    • Deadtime in counting systems
    • Random rates in coincidence measurements
  • Notes on Electronics
    • Description of the Various Electronics Units
    • Trouble-Shooting
  • Data acquisition systems
  • General measurements for gamma spectroscopy
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
• List of Experiments
  • Neutron Diffusion in Graphite using BF3 or 3He detectors
  • Positron annihilation detection
  • X-ray fluorescence
  • Photon spectrometry with proportional counters
  • Gamma spectrometry of environmental radioactivity
  • Neutron activation analysis
  • Gamma-ray attenuation and build up
  • Alpha-particle stopping powers in gases
  • Absolute activity determination
  • Gamma-ray spectroscopy using scintillators
• Writing a laboratory report
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Theory
  • Background to detection techniques for XYZ
  • Experimental measurements of XYZ
  • Results of the detection of XYZ
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices
• Gamma-Ray Source Activities
• Summary of Statistical Formulae (+ Knoll ch. 3)