Prompt-gamma activation analysis and its application to cultural heritage

Z Kasztovszky, C Stieghorst, HH Chen-Mayer… - Handbook of cultural …, 2022 - Springer
Prompt-gamma activation analysis (PGAA) provides a unique opportunity to investigate a
valuable material without destroying any of it. The method is perfectly applicable to …

Integration of Neutron-Based Elemental Analysis and Imaging to Characterize Complex Cultural Heritage Objects

L Szentmiklósi, Z Kis, B Maróti - Handbook of cultural heritage analysis, 2022 - Springer
Prompt-gamma activation analysis (PGAA), a nondestructive, neutron-based bulk elemental
analysis method, has been actively used for more than 20 years to characterize …

Texture measurements of archaeological objects at STRESS-SPEC neutron diffractometer

W Gan, M Hofmann, F Wagner, R Gebhard - Applied Physics A, 2024 - Springer
The main advantage of neutron diffraction over X-ray diffraction, arises from the fact that the
interaction of neutrons with material is relatively weak and not related to the number of …

Prompt gamma rays of terbium induced by inelastic scattering of fission neutrons

N Ophoven, Z Ilic, E Mauerhofer… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2024 - Springer
Prompt gamma rays of terbium emitted after (n, nʹγ) inelastic scattering reactions induced
by irradiation of a terbium (III) hexahydrate (TbCl3· 6H2O) sample with a beam of fission …

Optimization and characterization of the PGAI-NT instrument's Neutron Tomography set-up at MLZ

EJ Kluge, C Stieghorst, Z Revay, P Kudějová… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Imaging and Neutron Tomography (PGAI-NT)
instrument at the PGAA facility of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center (MLZ), provides a method …

Spectrometry as a nondestructive technique in identifying cultural archaeological heritage: some case studies illustrating 'characterization without devastation'

E Osman - … and Microscopy Techniques for Archaeological and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectrometry as a nondestructive technique in identifying cultural archaeological heritage:
some case studies illustrating 'characterization without devastation' - Book chapter …

Determination of isotope concentration profiles in materials science applications using cold neutrons

MA Trunk - 2021 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Abstract Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) is a non-destructive method to quantify even
smallest amounts of near-surface isotope concentrations with high depth resolution. Due to …

Volume 4: Detection Systems and Ultra-Cold Neutrons

G Hauck, JM Allmond, L Broussard, D Glasgow… - 2023 - osti.gov
As part of the Sustaining and Enhancing Nuclear Science (SENSe) initiative at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL), the prospect of adding new detection systems to support High …

[PDF][PDF] PGAI-NT and archaeometry at the PGAA facility of MLZ

EJ Kluge, C Stieghorst, Z Révay, J Jolie - eschlykluge.info
In contrast to a bulk-sample analysis, a PGAI sub-volume is established by the intersection
of a pencil-like collimated neutron beam and a narrowly collimated field of view of an …