Study of the background on a ZnS(Ag) alp
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M. Ardid; J.L. Ferrero; A. Herrero
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Alpha counters based on the scintillation of ZnS(Ag) have been used widely to measure total alpha activity in environmental samples. The main difficulties for this kind of detectors consist of having a reasonable low background, i.e., around 10 ร3 counts/s. It is assumed that the background comes fr