Abstract
Charged particle activation analysis (CPAA) utilizing an 8 MeV proton beam has been studied for general elemental quantification. We accumulate the reaction cross section and nuclear decay data by referring to nuclear database supplied by National Nuclear Data Center in Brookhaven National Laboratory. By using the database we have derived determination sensitivity of single element samples for each nuclide. The result indicates that, while the determination sensitivity tends to decrease gradually as the target nucleus becomes heavy, the CPAA analysis is possible over the whole elements including the heavy nuclear region. It may be concluded that CPAA can be applied to most of the stable nuclei and is one of the alternative methods to neutron activation analysis.
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