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[en] A high-pressure proportional counter system is constructed. The high pressure 4πβ counter system constructed is made of aluminum and is divided into two 2π counters. The gas pressure is controlled with a pressure regulator and very fine leak valves to keep the balance of a stable pressure and constant flow rate. Investigation of characteristics of th counter shows that there is an almost linear relation between voltage and pressure. The linearlity of gas gain of this counter to the electron energies is measured with different gas pressures. Quite good linear gas multiplication is obtained at 0.9 MPa. Another investigation is made of application of to activity measurement of 109Cd. When the gas pressure is over 0.5 MPa, the proportion of collected conversion electrons to absolute activity comes to a constant value of 96 %. This is quite good agreement with the decay data of 96.4 % conversion electron emission rate. The study indicated many excellent features for activity measurement. Especially the efficiency variation technique is good for automatic data acquisition with a programmable high voltage supplier. Moreover, since it is possible to obtain absolute activity with only one sample, it will be quite useful for limited samples experiments. (N.K.)
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Miyajima, M.; Sasaki, S.; Doke, T. (eds.); National Lab. for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan); 200 p; Jul 1988; p. 117-125; 3. workshop on radiation detectors and their uses; Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan); 9-10 Feb 1988
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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CADMIUM ISOTOPES, CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION, CONVERSION, COUNTING TECHNIQUES, DECAY, DETECTION, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, EVEN-ODD NUCLEI, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, ISOTOPES, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, NUCLEAR DECAY, NUCLEI, RADIATION DETECTION, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIOISOTOPES, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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