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Photon activation analysis of coins and objects of art

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Photon activation analysis is a suitable method for nondestructive analysis of Au, Ag and Cu because of the following advantages: the nuclear parameters (cross-sections, threshold energies) for the (γ, n)-reactions of the three elements as well as the attenuation coefficients of the activating bremsstrahlung and the emitted gamma radiation are quite similar. The severe self-shielding effects of thermal neutron activation analysis do not exist and these effects can be ignored or easily and accurately accounted for.

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  1. G. J. Lutz

    Present address: National Bureau of Standards, 20234, Washington, D. C.

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  1. Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung (BAM), D-1000, Berlin 45

    P. Reimers (Senior U.S. Scientist Awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), G. J. Lutz & Chr Segebade

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Reimers, P., Lutz, G.J. & Segebade, C. Photon activation analysis of coins and objects of art. J. Radioanal. Chem. 39, 93–97 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02517215

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