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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
May. 07, 1999
Christopher Henry Orr, Calderbridge, GB;
Craig Janson Luff, Calderbridge, GB;
Thomas Dockray, Calderbridge, GB;
Duncan Whittemore Macarthur, Los Alamos, NM (US);
John Alan Bounds, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Krag Allander, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Other;
Abstract
The apparatus and method provide techniques through which both alpha and beta emission determinations can be made simultaneously using a simple detector structure. The technique uses a beta detector covered in an electrically conducting material, the electrically conducting material discharging ions generated by alpha emissions, and as a consequence providing a measure of those alpha emissions. The technique also offers improved mountings for alpha detectors and other forms of detectors against vibration and the consequential effects vibration has on measurement accuracy.