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-.=====Radon Measurements Guide===== +. 
-This site contains a listing of Radon-related work and measurements of interest primarily to the low-background physics community. If you have, or know of interesting measurements which should be included, please contact Michael Ronquest (<<michael DOT ronquest at gmail DOT COM >>), Keith Rielage (<< rielagek at lanl DOT GOV>>) +=====Radon Measurements Guide===== 
 +This site contains a listing of Radon-related work and measurements of interest primarily to the low-background physics community. If you have, or know of interesting measurements which should be included, please contact Michael Ronquest (<<michael DOT ronquest at gmail DOT COM >>), Keith Rielage (<< rielagek at lanl DOT GOV>>) or Vincente Guisseppe (vincente.guisseppe@usd.edu
  
 ===Radon Emanation Measurements=== ===Radon Emanation Measurements===
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 ===Radon Permeability Measurements=== ===Radon Permeability Measurements===
 +^Category^ Material ^ Measurement ^ Units ^ Date Made ^ Collaboration or Research Group ^ Citation ^ Link ^ Notes / Picture ^
 |Alumized Polymer|Alumized Polycarbonate|3.61*(10 to the -9)|square centimeter per second|2002|Ein Shams University|Wafaa Arafa, Permeability of radon-222 through some materials, Radiation Measurements, Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2002, Pages 207-211, ISSN 1350-4487, DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(02)00043-4.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448702000434| |Alumized Polymer|Alumized Polycarbonate|3.61*(10 to the -9)|square centimeter per second|2002|Ein Shams University|Wafaa Arafa, Permeability of radon-222 through some materials, Radiation Measurements, Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2002, Pages 207-211, ISSN 1350-4487, DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(02)00043-4.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448702000434|
 |Alumized Polymer|Alumized Mylar|2.46*(10 to the -9)|square centimeter per second|2002|Ein Shams University|Wafaa Arafa, Permeability of radon-222 through some materials, Radiation Measurements, Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2002, Pages 207-211, ISSN 1350-4487, DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(02)00043-4.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448702000434| |Alumized Polymer|Alumized Mylar|2.46*(10 to the -9)|square centimeter per second|2002|Ein Shams University|Wafaa Arafa, Permeability of radon-222 through some materials, Radiation Measurements, Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2002, Pages 207-211, ISSN 1350-4487, DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(02)00043-4.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448702000434|
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 ===Radon Diffusion Measurements=== ===Radon Diffusion Measurements===
 +^Category^ Material ^ Measurement ^ Units ^ Date Made ^ Collaboration or Research Group ^ Citation ^ Link ^ Notes / Picture ^
 |Glue| RTV 615|800|10 to the -12*meters squared per second|2011|SuperNEMO|F Mamedov et al. (2011),Measurement of radon diffusion through shielding foils for the SuperNEMO experiment.Journal of Instrumentation, 01: 1748-0221|http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/6/01/C01068| |Glue| RTV 615|800|10 to the -12*meters squared per second|2011|SuperNEMO|F Mamedov et al. (2011),Measurement of radon diffusion through shielding foils for the SuperNEMO experiment.Journal of Instrumentation, 01: 1748-0221|http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/6/01/C01068|
 |Junction|Mylar Junction|.030|10 to the -12*meters squared per second|2011|SuperNEMO|F Mamedov et al. (2011),Measurement of radon diffusion through shielding foils for the SuperNEMO experiment.Journal of Instrumentation, 01: 1748-0221|http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/6/01/C01068| |Junction|Mylar Junction|.030|10 to the -12*meters squared per second|2011|SuperNEMO|F Mamedov et al. (2011),Measurement of radon diffusion through shielding foils for the SuperNEMO experiment.Journal of Instrumentation, 01: 1748-0221|http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/6/01/C01068|
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 |Silicon|Silicon|320|10 to the -12*meters squared per second|2011|SuperNEMO|F Mamedov et al. (2011),Measurement of radon diffusion through shielding foils for the SuperNEMO experiment.Journal of Instrumentation, 01: 1748-0221|http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/6/01/C01068| |Silicon|Silicon|320|10 to the -12*meters squared per second|2011|SuperNEMO|F Mamedov et al. (2011),Measurement of radon diffusion through shielding foils for the SuperNEMO experiment.Journal of Instrumentation, 01: 1748-0221|http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/6/01/C01068|
 ===Radon Solubility Measurements=== ===Radon Solubility Measurements===
 +^Category^ Material ^ Measurement ^ Units ^ Date Made ^ Collaboration or Research Group ^ Citation ^ Link ^ Notes / Picture ^
 |Kalrez|Kalrez (.28 mm thickness)|12.8 +/- 2.8||2000|Borexino|M. Wojcik, W. Wlazlo, G. Zuzel, G. Heusser, Radon diffusion through polymer membranes used in the solar neutrino experiment Borexino, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 449, Issues 1-2, 11 July 2000, Pages 158-171, ISSN 0168-9002, DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01450-3.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900299014503| |Kalrez|Kalrez (.28 mm thickness)|12.8 +/- 2.8||2000|Borexino|M. Wojcik, W. Wlazlo, G. Zuzel, G. Heusser, Radon diffusion through polymer membranes used in the solar neutrino experiment Borexino, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 449, Issues 1-2, 11 July 2000, Pages 158-171, ISSN 0168-9002, DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01450-3.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900299014503|
 |Nylon|Nylon 6 (.015 mm thick)|(5.0 +/- .5)||2000|Borexino|M. Wojcik, W. Wlazlo, G. Zuzel, G. Heusser, Radon diffusion through polymer membranes used in the solar neutrino experiment Borexino, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 449, Issues 1-2, 11 July 2000, Pages 158-171, ISSN 0168-9002, DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01450-3.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900299014503| |Nylon|Nylon 6 (.015 mm thick)|(5.0 +/- .5)||2000|Borexino|M. Wojcik, W. Wlazlo, G. Zuzel, G. Heusser, Radon diffusion through polymer membranes used in the solar neutrino experiment Borexino, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 449, Issues 1-2, 11 July 2000, Pages 158-171, ISSN 0168-9002, DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01450-3.|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900299014503|
 ===Radon Daughter Removal Studies=== ===Radon Daughter Removal Studies===
 +^Title^Link^Relevant Pages^ 
 +|Low Radioactivity Background Techniques|http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ns.45.120195.002551|552-554| 
 +|Behavior of the 222Rn daughters on copper surfaces during cleaning|http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/897/53/1|All| 
 +|Removal of the long-lived 222Rn daughters from steel and germanium surfaces|http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1338/224/1|All| 
 +|Ultra-Low-Background Copper Production and Clean Fabrication|http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/785/170/1|173-175| 
 +|Cleaning and passivation of copper surfaces to remove surface radioactivity and prevent oxide formation|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900207006882|All|
 ===Radon Mitigation Studies=== ===Radon Mitigation Studies===
 +^Title^Link^Relevant Pages^ 
 +|222Rn detection at the μBq/m3 range in nitrogen gas and a new Rn purification technique for liquid nitrogen|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969804399002316|All| 
 +|Low-222Rn nitrogen gas generator for ultra-low background counting systems|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900204023356|All|
 ===Transport, Deposition and Mobility Models=== ===Transport, Deposition and Mobility Models===
 +^Title^Link^Relevant Pages^ 
 +|A Radon Progeny Deposition Model|http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1338/95/1|All|
  
 ===Thoron Measurements=== ===Thoron Measurements===
  
 +=== Radon Detector Papers ===
 +^Title^Link^Relevant Pages^
 +|On-line low- and medium-level measurements of the radon activity concentration |http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900201002273|All|
 +|Detector for 222Rn measurements in air at the 1mBq/m3 level|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900200010822|All|
 +|Highly sensitive measurements of radioactive noble gas nuclides in the Borexino solar neutrino experiment|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969804304001083|All
 +|Analysis of the 222Rn concentration in argon and a purification technique for gaseous and liquid argon |http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969804309000669|All|
 +|Radon emanation measurements using silicon photodiode detectors|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969804303003762|All|
 +|The miniaturized proportional counternext term HD-2(Fe)/(Si) for the GALLEX solar neutrino experiment|http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016890029391289Y|All|
 +|A high-sensitivity large volume cryogenic detector for radon in gas|http://www.springerlink.com/content/w0325547091r6066/|All|
 ===Review Papers === ===Review Papers ===
  
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 Website Contributors: Website Contributors:
   * Stan Seibert   * Stan Seibert
-  * Michael Ronquest 
   * Bill Ireland   * Bill Ireland
 +  * Michael Ronquest
 +  * Vincent Guisseppe
  
  
  
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