CHARGED PARTICLE ACTIVATION ANALYSIS FOR SURFACE IMPURITIES IN BERYLLIUM, MOLYBDENUM AND TUNGSTEN.

Abstract

Charged particle activation analysis has been performed on carbon, nitrogen and oxygen impurities in surfaces of beryllium, molybdenum, and tungsten using selected deuteron energies to 2.7 MeV. Deuteron beams collimated down to 0.1 inch diameter were used to bombard samples housed in a precision alignment system under vacuum conditions of 10 to the 7th power torr. Positron activity resulting from the presence of impurities was counted and stored as a complex decay curve which was subsequently analyzed by a complex decay curve computer code which compared results against standards and produced PPM values for each run. Good reproducibility and sensitivity was obtained.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0816193

Entities

People

  • D. L. Kellogg
  • K. R. Blake
  • L. D. England

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Beryllium
  • Charged Particles
  • Computers
  • Deuteron Beams
  • Deuterons
  • Diameters
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Elements
  • Fermions
  • Impurities
  • Metals
  • Molybdenum
  • Nitrogen
  • Particles
  • Positrons
  • Tungsten

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.