Abstract
Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA) is presently being developed at the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics (FLNP) to determine the elemental composition of samples. The NRCA is a nondestructive method that allows measuring objects’ bulk composition. The procedure is based on detecting neutron resonances in radiative capture and the measurement of the yield of reaction products in these resonances. The experiments are carried out at the Intense REsonance Neutron source (IREN). In this study, we applied the NRCA to investigate an archaeological object provided by the Museum and Exhibition Complex (MVK) "Volokolamsk Kremlin". The object was a women’s Old Believer cross (second half of the 17th century) found in the Moscow region, Volokolamsk district, the village of Chubarovo.
Highlights
The neutron resonance capture analysis allows determining samples elemental and isotopic composition of samples without any destruction and preparation
The method is applied for various studies at different institutes and sources, such as the GELINA pulsed neutron source of the Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements of the Joint Research Center (Gel, Belgium) [1], ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source in the United Kingdom [2] and the J-PARC pulsed neutron source in Japan [3]
The Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA) is used at the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics [4,5,6]
Summary
Application of non-destructive neutron resonance capture analysis for investigation of women’s Old. S.T. Mazhen∗,1,2, P.V. Sedyshev, N.V. Simbirtseva, A.M. Yergashov, A.Yu. Dmitriev, V.L. Ivchenkov. Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA) is presently being developed at the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics (FLNP) to determine the elemental composition of samples. The NRCA is a nondestructive method that allows measuring objects’ bulk composition. The procedure is based on detecting neutron resonances in radiative capture and the measurement of the yield of reaction products in these resonances. We applied the NRCA to investigate an archaeological object provided by the Museum and Exhibition Complex (MVK) "Volokolamsk Kremlin". The object was a women’s Old Believer cross (second half of the 17th century) found in the Moscow region, Volokolamsk district, the village of Chubarovo. 182 Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials, Vol.5(4)
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