Title: IRSD raw alpha spectrum data for Rn-222 emanation determination
Authors: Mertes, Florian, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Fachbereich 6.1 Radioaktivität, ORCID: 0000-0003-0217-2845
Röttger, Stefan, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Fachbereich 6.1 Radioaktivität, ORCID: 0000-0002-4750-9563
Röttger, Annette, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abteilung 6 Ionisierende Strahlung, ORCID: 0000-0001-6858-5795
Contributors: HostingInstitution: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), ISNI: 0000 0001 2186 1887
Language:en
DOI:10.7795/720.20220921
Resource Type: Dataset / Measurement Data
Publisher: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CC-BY 4.0 International
Relationships: IsDescribedBy: DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020840
Dates: Available: 2022-09-23
Classifications: INSPEC A2390 Other topics in nuclear decay and radioactivity ; INSPEC A8760R Radioactive pollution and natural radioactivity: health aspects
File: Download File (application/zip) 120.00 MB (125830269 Bytes)
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SHA256 Checksum: 21dc356c1544a4952ea36030bfea91d9ff83b99f0389a6fe0f740cc63ee1dfe1
Keywords primary radioactivity standard ; low-level radon emanation ; Integrated 222Rn Source/Detector (IRSS)
Abstract: Data measured with an IRSD and AlphaGUARD for the determination of the Rn-222 emanation from Ra-226.
Other: EMPIR projects are co-funded by the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the EMPIR participating states.
Remark: description of individual files:

# Subfolders 50L, 500L

Subfolders contain experimental IRSD data (see https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020840 for reference about the technique) with an AlphaGuard spectrometer, operated in a closed volume of (48.6 ± 0.4) L and (667.3 ± 0.7) L respectively.

- Subfolder "IRSD" contains the IRSD data:
- File __Spectra.csv: Full alpha-spectrometric data acquired by the IRSD and derived peak areas (see https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020840, Appendix A, for method description)
- File __InferenceData.csv: SLDS-deconvolution results (see https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020840, Appendix B) yielding current remaining Rn- and Ra activities, emanation, and full covariance information.

- Subfolder "AlphaGuard" contains measurement data of different AlphaGuards operated in these volumes. Timestamps are referred to the CET time zone (UTC+1)

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Funding: European Commission (EC), ISNI: 0000 0001 2162 673X, Grant Title: Implementation of radon metrology for the analysis of the atmospheric budget of the greenhouse gases (GHG) and radiation protection in environment, Grant Number: EMPIR 19ENV01 traceRadon