Field Screening Basics

Laboratory Field Screening Equipment

Manual : LUDLUM MODEL 43-1 AND 43-1-1 SCINTILLATORS

Manual : LUDLUM MODEL 2241-2 SURVEY METER

Handouts and Worksheets

  1. SignalProcessing.pdf
              Describing how α, and β emission events are transformed into "counts" by the Field Screening Equipment.

  2. DosimetryExplained.pdf
              A worksheet (with solutions) detailing the isotopes, and their lifetimes(τ) expected to be in the dust samples.

  3. BatemanEquations.pdf
              A description of the temporal patterns for a few generations in a radioactive decay chain.