Designing a system of boron concentration measurement in solution samples by the PGNAA facility of the Isfahan MNSR reactor

M Jafari, H Jafari, MHC Dastjerdi, J Mokhtari - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Boron is used in various industrial branches, such as in semiconductor, insecticides,
agricultural, glass and ceramics products, and nuclear medicine. In this work, the ability of …

Utilization of accelerator and reactor based nuclear analytical techniques for chemical characterization of automobile windshield glass samples and potential of …

V Sharma, A Sarkar, R Acharya, HK Bagla… - Forensic Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Glass forensics is an important area in forensic crime investigations, wherein glass origin or
source finding is necessary mainly through chemical composition. In the present work …

Improvement of detector shield in PGNAA facility for boron concentration measurement

M Jafari, H Jafari, MHC Dastjerdi, J Mokhtari - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
A radiation shield consists of borated polyethylene (7% wt of boron) and lead was used for
the HPGe detector in Isfahan MNSR's PGNAA facility in order to remove scattered neutrons …

Standardization of an external (in air) PIGE methodology using tantalum as a current normalizer in conjunction with INAA for rapid and non-destructive chemical …

V Sharma, R Acharya, HK Bagla… - Journal of Analytical Atomic …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
An external (in air) Particle Induced Gamma-ray Emission (PIGE) method using tantalum
(window material) as the external current normalizer was standardized for the first time for …

Development of an external PIGE method using nitrogen from atmospheric air as external beam current normalizer and its application to nondestructive quantification …

SW Raja, R Acharya - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Beam current monitoring and normalization is a very important task in ion beam analysis
experiments. Compared to current monitoring by conventional method, in situ or external …

Development of an innovative external (in air) Particle Induced Gamma-ray Emission method for rapid non-destructive determination of isotopic composition of boron …

SW Raja, V Sharma, SK Samanta, R Acharya… - Analytica Chimica …, 2022 - Elsevier
Boron is an important element in nuclear reactor technology due to its high neutron
absorption cross section of 10 B isotope. Isotopic composition of B (IC, 10 B/11 B atom ratio) …

The standardization and application of an external (in air) particle induced gamma emission (PIGE) method for the rapid and non-destructive quantification of light …

SK Samanta, A Sengupta, S Ghorui… - Journal of Analytical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Coal is an important energy source and its quality evaluation in terms of the ash content and
amounts of other elements, like B and F, is a necessity. An external (in air) particle-induced …

Investigation and comparison of NR and PGNAA for determining boron concentration in solution samples

M Jafari, H Jafari, MHC Dastjerdi, J Mokhtari - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this work, the performance of neutron radiography (NR) and prompt-gamma neutron
activation analysis (PGNAA) in measuring boron concentration for solution samples has …

Characterization of ferroboron alloys by simultaneously quantifying Fe and B mass fractions and isotopic compositions of B by external particle induced gamma-ray …

SW Raja, R Acharya, AD Gandhi… - Journal of Analytical Atomic …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The mass fractions of Fe and B as well as the isotopic compositions of B were non-
destructively and simultaneously quantified in synthetically prepared ferroboron (Fe–B) …

Potential of external (in air) particle induced gamma-ray emission method for the preparation of isotopic composition of boron in-house reference standard in boron …

SW Raja, R Acharya, AD Sonawane… - Journal of Analytical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The quality control (QC) of an analytical method for any analytical data measurement
depends directly on the matrix matching standard and certified reference material (CRM). In …