A Method of determination of ambient quality factor of fast neutrons in mixed radiation fields using advanced recombination methods

Mieczysław Zielczyński; Natalia Golnik; Michał Gryziński

doi:10.2478/v10013-011-0019-y

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A Method of determination of ambient quality factor of fast neutrons in mixed radiation fields using advanced recombination methods

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering

Volume 17 (2011): Issue 4 (December 2011)

By: Mieczysław Zielczyński, Natalia Golnik and Michał Gryziński

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|Apr 2012

Abstract

The paper presents a method for determination of ambient quality factor for fast neutrons, Q_n^*(10), in mixed radiation fields with unknown neutron energy spectrum of limited energy range. The method uses a correlation between the Q_n^*(10) values, calculated by Monte-Carlo method for monoenergetic neutrons, with parameters of saturation curves of the recombination chamber, determined experimentally in the fields of monoenergetic neutrons and accompanying gamma radiation. In such a way, a number of discrepancies can be omitted, among them those associated with limited conformity between radiation quality factor and parameters of initial recombination of ions, as well as between construction of the recombination chamber and ICRU sphere, for which the quantities H^*(10) and Q^*(10) were defined.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-011-0019-y | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 (formerly 1425-4689) | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689

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Language: English, Polish

Page range: 189 - 206

Published on: Apr 26, 2012

Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics

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Keywords:

radiation dosimetry,

radiation protection,

radiation quality factor,

fast neutrons,

recombination chamber

Related subjects:

Medicine,

Biomedical engineering,

Physics,

Technical and applied physics,

Medical physics

© 2012 Mieczysław Zielczyński, Natalia Golnik, Michał Gryziński, published by Polish Society of Medical Physics
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Volume 17 (2011): Issue 4 (December 2011)