/ 4th International K0-Users Workshop
11-14 September 2005
Funchal, Portugal

K0-Madeira 2005

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Sunday, September 11

17.00-19.00 REGISTRATION

19.00-22.00 WELCOME RECEPTION


Monday, September 12

08.00-08.30 REGISTRATION

08.30-09.00 OPENING CEREMONY (Chairperson: M.C. Freitas)

M.C. Freitas, Institutional Guests, F. De Corte

Session 1 – Quality Assurance and Quality Control (Chairperson: B. Smodiš)

09.00-09.20 QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE k0-BASED NAA

B. Smodiš, T. Bučar

09.20-09.40 CHARACTERISATION OF SYNTHETIC MULTI-ELEMENT STANDARDS (SMELS) USED FOR THE VALIDATION OF k0-INAA

P. Vermaercke, P. Robouch, F. De Corte, G. Kennedy, B. Smodiš,
C. Yonezawa, H. Matsue, X. Lin, M. Blaauw, J. Kučera, M.C. Freitas

09.40-10.00 TESTING THE APPLICABILITY OF k0-INAA AT THE MINT’S TRIGA MARK II REACTOR

W.B. Siong, H.M. Dung, A.K. Wood, N.A.A. Salim, M.S. Elias

10.00-10.20 BREAK

Session 2 – General Developments and Nuclear Data (Chairperson: J. Kučera)

10.20-10.40 MEASUREMENT OF Q0 AND k0 VALUES FOR 14 NUCLIDES

J. St-Pierre, G. Kennedy

10.40-11.00 AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE FULL-PEAK DETECTION EFFICIENCY IN CASE OF A CLOSE-IN DETECTION GEOMETRY

A. De Wispelaere, F. De Corte

11.00-11.20 EXPERIMENTAL ko AND Qo VALUES FOR 110Pd(n,g,b)111Ag – A NEW ACTIVATION AND DECAY SCHEME VIII

K.M.Th. Solo

11.20-11.40 DEPENDENCE OF THERMAL AND EPITHERMAL NEUTRON SELF-SHIELDING ON SAMPLE SIZE AND IRRADIATION SITE

C. Chilian, J. St-Pierre, G. Kennedy

11.40-14.00 LUNCH [k0-ISC Meeting – Members Only]

Session 3 – Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis (Chairperson: C. Yonezawa)

14.00-14.20 Investigation of short-lived nuclides with chopped-beam PGAA

L. Szentmiklósi, Zs. Révay, T. Belgya

14.20-14.40 INVESTIGATION OF k0-BASED NEUTRON INDUCED PROMPT GAMMA-RAY ANALYSIS

H. Matsue, C. Yonezawa

14.40-15.00 PROMPT GAMMA RAY NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS (PGNAA) AND MEASUREMENT OF PROMPT k0-FACTORS

G.C. Nair, R. Acharya, K. Sudarshan, R. Tripathi, A.V.R. Reddy,
A. Goswami

15.00-15.20 THE CALCULATION OF UNCERTAINTIES IN PGAA

Zs. Révay, T. Belgya

15.20-17.00 FREE TIME

17.00-19.00 VISIT TO THE MADEIRA-WINE MUSEUM AND RECEPTION ("MADEIRA DE HONRA") AT THE FUNCHAL CITY HALL


Tuesday, September 13

Session 4 – Detectors and Irradiation Facilities I (Chairperson: F. De Corte)

08.30-08.50 EXPERIENCES WITH A FACTORY CALIBRATED HPGe DETECTOR

D.A.W. Bossus, J.J.M.G. Swagten, P.A.M. Kleinjans

08.50-09.10 INFLUENCE OF THE MASS OF Cd COVER ON THE SPECTRAL PARAMETER f IN THE k0-STANDARDIZATION OF NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

R. Jacimovic, A. Trkov, P. Stegnar

09.10-09.30 Neutron flux at irradiation positions in reactor FRM-II

X. Lin, R. Henkelmann, A. Türler, H. Gerstenberg, F. De Corte

09.30-09.50 ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF NEUTRON SPECTRUM PARAMETERS USING MULTIPLE MONITORS

C. Yonezawa, H. Matsue, A. Tanji

09.50-10.10 THE NEUTRON SPECTRUM PARAMETERS Tn, AND r(a)ÖTn/TO IN IRRADIATION CHANNELS OF NIRR-1

S.A. Jonah, G.I. Balogun

10.10-10.30 BREAK


Session 5 – Implementation and Applications I (Chairperson: G. Kennedy)

10.30-10.50 RELATIVELY- AND k0-STANDARDIZED INAA TO ASSESS THE INTERNAL (Th, U) ANNUAL RADIATION DOSE FOR ETCHED QUARTZ GRAINS IN THE “QUARTZ COARSE-GRAIN PROTOCOL”
OF LUMINESCENCE DATING

F. De Corte, D. Vandenberghe, J.-P. Buylaert, P. Van den haute,
J. Kučera

10.50-11.10 COMBINED APPLICATION OF MULTIELEMENT ANALYSIS – k0-INAA AND PIXE – AND CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES FOR SOURCE APPORTIONMENT IN AEROSOL STUDIES

S.M. Almeida, M.C. Freitas, M.A. Reis, C.A. Pio, M.A. Trancoso

11.10-11.30 SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF k0-NAA FOR APM, CRUDE OIL, BASE ROCK, HUMAN HAIR AND MARINE SEDIMENT SAMPLES

H.M. Dung, C.D. Vu, D.H. Luong, P.C.D. Lemos, M.C.P. Teixeira

11.30-11.50 REACTOR NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS USING Zr FOILS

C. Paunoiu

11.50-12.10 THE CALIBRATION OF XRF POLYETHYLENE REFERENCE MATERIALS

J.J.M.G. Swagten, D.A.W. Bossus, P.A.M. Kleinjans, J.M.H. Vanwersch

12.10-14.00 LUNCH

Session 6 – Software and Computation (Chairperson: R.M. Lindstrom)

14.00-14.20 KAYZERO FOR WINDOWS: A COMPLETE NAA DATA EVALUATION TOOL BASED ON THE ORIGINAL k0-METHOD

R. van Sluijs, A. De Wispelaere, D. Bossus, F. De Corte

14.20-14.40 PROGRESS IN THE k0-IAEA PROGRAM

M. Blaauw, M. Rossbach

14.40-15.00 DETERMINATION OF Sm, Th AND U IN SOIL AND SEDIMENT REFERENCE MATERIALS USING THE KAYZERO/SOLCOI SOFTWARE

R. Jacimovic, R. Van Sluijs

15.00-15.20 ACTIVATION AND DECAY FORMULAS GENERATING BY ONESELF

K.M.Th. Solo

15.20-15.40 TOOLKITS FOR NUCLEAR SCIENCE: DATA AND SPREADSHEETS

R.M. Lindstrom

15.40-16.00 ORGANISATION OF k0-INAA CALCULATION AT LCA/CREN-K

K.M.Th. Solo, M.D.A. Tshiashala, B.M.F. Lumu

16.00-16.20 BREAK

16.20-17.50 TUTORIAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE k0-IAEA PROGRAM FEATURES

R. Jacimovic

17.50-19.00 FREE TIME

19.00-22.00 WORKSHOP DINNER


Wednesday, September 14

Session 7 – Detectors and Irradiation Facilities II (Chairperson: Zs. Révay)

08.30-08.50 CDTN/CNEN, BELO HORIZONTE - OPTIMIZED k0-INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION METHOD USING ITS OWN TRIGA MARK I IPR-R1 REACTOR: THE OUTSTANDING PARTNERSHIP IN BRAZIL

M.A.B.C. Menezes, R. Jacimovic

08.50-09.10 INFLUENCE OF TEMPORAL VARIATION OF THE NEUTRON FLUENCE RATE IN THE CAROUSEL FACILITY OF A TRIGA REACTOR ON THE RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE k0-METHOD
OF NAA

R. Jacimovic, A. Trkov, P. Stegnar

09.10-09.30 IMPLEMENTATION OF k0-NAA ON NAA#3 IRRADIATION HOLE OF HANARO RESEARCH REACTOR

H.M. Dung, J.H. Moon, Y.S. Chung, H.R. Kim

09.30-09.50 f AND a MAPPING OF AN Am-Be NEUTRON SOURCE IRRADIATION FACILITY FOR APPLICATION IN THE k0-NAA METHOD

S.A. Jonah, I.M. Umar, N. Rabiu

09.50-10.10 RE-DETERMINATION AND RE-EVALUATION OF THE f AND ALPHA PARAMETERS IN CHANNELS Y4 AND S84 OF THE BR-1 REACTOR, FOR USE IN k0-NAA AT DSM RESEARCH

A. De Wispelaere, F. De Corte, D.A.W. Bossus, J.J.M.G. Swagten, P. Vermaercke

10.10-10.30 BREAK

10.30-12.00 TUTORIAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE KAYZERO/SOLCOIâ PROGRAM FEATURES

R. van Sluijs

12.00-14.00 LUNCH

Session 8 – Implementation and Applications II (Chairperson: L. Xilei)

14.00-14.20 TRACE-ELEMENT CONTENTS OF RAW VEGETABLES CONSUMED IN MAINLAND PORTUGAL, DETERMINED BY k0-INAA

A.M.G. Pacheco, M.C. Freitas, M.G. Ventura, I. Dionísio, E. Ermakova

14.20-14.40 APPLICATION OF k0-INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS TO NATURAL MEDICINES

A.S. Leal, M.A.B.C. Menezes, P. Vermaercke, C.M.E. Jensen

14.40-15.00 THE k0-BASED INTERNAL MONO-STANDARD INAA METHOD: DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS

R. Acharya, A.G.C. Nair, K. Sudarshan, A.V.R. Reddy, A. Goswami

15.00-15.20 MULTIANALYTICAL DETERMINATION OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN ATMOSPHERIC BIOMONITORS BY k0-INAA, ICP-MS AND AAS

M.C. Freitas, A.M.G. Pacheco, A. Machado, I. Dionísio, S. Sarmento, M.S. Baptista, M.T. Vasconcelos, J.P. Cabral

15.20-15.40 THE PERFORMANCE OF k0-INAA IN THE DETERMINATION OF ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS IN MAN-MADE MATERIALS

I.O. Abugassa

15.40-16.00 BREAK

16.00-16.30 CLOSING ADDRESSES