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A sensitive assay technique for <sup>210</sup>Pb in water

2020· article· en· W3000650568 on OpenAlexaffabout
D. Chauhan, O. Chkvorets

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Physics Conference Series · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicNeutrino Physics Research
Canadian institutionsLaurentian UniversitySnolabQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScintillatorUltrapure waterRadiochemistryElectromagnetic shieldingContaminationLiquid scintillation countingShieldsSeawaterChemistryNuclear physicsNuclear chemistryAnalytical Chemistry (journal)PhysicsEnvironmental chemistryEnvironmental scienceDetectorGeologyEnvironmental engineering

Abstract

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Abstract SNO+ is a multipurpose neutrino physics experiment, located 2 kilometers underground in the SNOLAB facility in Sudbury, Canada. It is the successor of the SNO experiment, replacing the heavy water in the Acrylic vessel (AV) with 780 tons of liquid scintillator, Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB). The AV is surrounded by 7000 tons of ultrapure light water, which shields the detector from naturally occurring radioactivity in the surrounding rock, PMTs, and PSUP. To achieve the radiopurity requirements, the water should be very clean and levels of U and Th contamination in the shielding water must be carefully controlled. A water assay technique, based on the capture of Ra and Th radioisotopes using Hydrous Titanium Oxide (HTiO), was developed by the SNO experiment. Ra sensitivities equivalent to 232 Th: 4×10 −16 gTh/D 2 O and 238 U: 3×10 −16 gU/g D 2 O were achieved with this technique [1]. The HTiO technique will be used in SNO+ to monitor 238 U and 232 Th contamination levels in the shielding water and the performance of the water purification system. For the lower energy measurements of interest to SNO+, radon daughter radioisotopes, especially 210 Po and 210 Bi supported by 210 Pb, are also important. Since water will be used in the purification of both the liquid scintillator and tellurium that will be chemically loaded in SNO+ to search for neutrinoless double beta decay, a technique to assay for 210 Pb in water was desirable. The SNO+ collaboration has extended the HTiO assay technique to allow measurement of 210 Pb in the water. This technique is capable of measuring 0.4 +/- 0.13 mBq/m 3 of 210 Pb for a 10 to nn e assay. The method developed and results of initial 210 Pb measurements are presented.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.872
Threshold uncertainty score0.699

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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