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Roca V, De Felice P, Esposito AM, et al. The influence of environmental parameters in electrostatic cell radon monitor response. Appl Radiat Isot. 2004;61(2):243-7doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.053.
Roca, V., De Felice, P., Esposito, A. M., Pugliese, M., Sabbarese, C., & Vaupotich, J. (2004). The influence of environmental parameters in electrostatic cell radon monitor response. Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine, 61(2), 243-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.053
Roca, V, et al. "The influence of environmental parameters in electrostatic cell radon monitor response." Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine vol. 61,2 (2004): 243-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.053
Roca V, De Felice P, Esposito AM, Pugliese M, Sabbarese C, Vaupotich J. The influence of environmental parameters in electrostatic cell radon monitor response. Appl Radiat Isot. 2004 Aug-Sep;61(2):243-7. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.053. PMID: 15177352.
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Appl Radiat Isot. 2004 Aug-Sep;61(2):243-7. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.053.

The influence of environmental parameters in electrostatic cell radon monitor response.

Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine

V Roca, P De Felice, A M Esposito, M Pugliese, C Sabbarese, J Vaupotich

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università Federico II, Polo universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, Napoli, Italy. [email protected]

PMID: 15177352 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.053

Abstract

To better understand the influence of air parameters such as pressure, humidity and temperature on the counting efficiency of a radon monitor based on solid state silicon detectors and radon daughter electrostatic collection, a number of experimental and theoretical studies have been performed. This study has been carried out using a multiparameter acquisition system used to monitor radon, temperature, pressure and relative humidity. Results show that air humidity and temperature inside the cell influence radon daughter collection in a significant way. For the tested cell, a decrease of the 218Po counting efficiency vs. humidity and temperature increase was measured in the ranges from 10% to 90% and from 15 degrees C to 35 degrees C, respectively. These effects were also theoretically studied by using Monte-Carlo software, which takes into account electrostatic collection of radon daughters in the cell, by considering the recombination process as a function of climatic parameters. A satisfactory agreement was obtained between experimental measurements and theoretical calculations.

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