Abstract:
This paper introduced a measurement method of low concentration
220Rn—time interval analysis (TIA) method. In the short time after the alpha particle emitted at the decay of a
220Rn atom an alpha particle from the decay of
216Po (half life 0.145) follows. The multi-time analysis method is based on the analysis of the emitting time interval between the two successive alpha particles, which can be used to discriminate the
220Rn from
222Rn. A flow through Lucas cell (FD125) was used to measure 10 Bq standard
220Rn source. When the
222Rn activity is less than 10 times the
220Rn activity, count rate is controlled within 60 min
-1, the time resolution is set to 1 ms and the measuring time is 10 h, and the relative deviation of the results is within 7%.