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Published on: October 21, 2016
Application of the CIEMAT/NIST method to 14C low-level measurements
D Borrego-Alonso1, B Quintana-Arnés1, N Navarro2
1Laboratorio de Radiaciones Ionizantes y Datación, Departamento de Física Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008, Salamanca, Spain.
Abstract:
Radiocarbon dating of samples from benzene synthesis by low-level Liquid Scintillation Counting (LSC) method requires the availability of 14C standards in benzene, which are difficult to obtain, or the use of an absolute measurement which is out of reach for most analytical laboratories. This paper describes how the CIEMAT/NIST method can help to solve this issue and presents the measurements of low activity concentrations performed in the LRI-D using two different benzene base scintillator cocktails.
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