Undergraduate experiments with a 44Ti source

Stuart Pirrie; Garry Tungate; Tzany Kokalova; Carl Wheldon; Konstantinos Nikolopoulos; Pedro Santa Rita; Anthony Turner

doi:10.1088/1361-6404/abbca3

Undergraduate experiments with a 44Ti source

Stuart Pirrie, Garry Tungate, Tzany Kokalova, Carl Wheldon, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Pedro Santa Rita, Anthony Turner

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Abstract: Undergraduate experiments provide practical demonstration of both measurement techniques and the underpinning science. The radioactive source 44Ti is particularly useful due to the range of experimental measurements it allows. Five experiments utilising 44Ti, suitable for undergraduate laboratories, are described in this paper. These illustrate several topics in nuclear physics and a number of experimental techniques, such as coincidence measurements and lifetime measurements. The experiments described require careful evaluation of the data which provide students with important analytical skills.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	015805
Journal	European Journal of Physics
Volume	42
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/abbca3
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2020

Keywords

44Sc
44Ti
Multidisciplinary and miscellaneous
Paper
gamma-ray spectroscopy
lifetime measurements
nuclear physics

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