ABSTRACT Background: were made each week during year 2002 from samples of atmospheric aerosols filtered from theair at Tehran Nuclear Research Center.Measurement of gross beta activities and cosmogenic Beryllium-7 concentrationsMaterials and Methodssampler at the Nuclear Research Center meteorological station in Tehran (40contents of samples were determined with semiconductor gamma spectrometry...

Beryllium-7 in Be(OH)2 gel was compressed in diamond-anvil pressure cells up to 442 kbar at room temperature. By counting the activity of 7Be, the decay rate for the conversion of 7Be to 7Li via electron capture was measured. The decay constant of 7Be, V, was found to increase, but the rate of increase decreased with increasing pressure. A quadratic regression of the data yields (V3V0)/V0 = (4....

abstract background: were made each week during year 2002 from samples of atmospheric aerosols filtered from theair at tehran nuclear research center.measurement of gross beta activities and cosmogenic beryllium-7 concentrationsmaterials and methodssampler at the nuclear research center meteorological station in tehran (40contents of samples were determined with semiconductor gamma spectrometry...

Investigations of the atmospheric fallout of 7Be and 210pb in many places around the globe indicate that there are seasonal variations on the alepositional fluxes of these nuclides: high in winter in a few places, while in most places the high occurs in spring. However, these earlier studies did not address quantitatively the corresponding seasonal variations of the amount of precipitation duri...

This paper suffers from conceptual difficulties and unjustified approximations that render its conclusions invalid. The influence of protons on electron capture by 7Be in the Sun is already included in the standard plasma screening correction to the density of thermal electrons at the 7Be nucleus needed for calculating the capture rate. Moreover, the approximation to the three-body wave functio...

Radiolabelling of industrially manufactured nanoparticles is useful for nanoparticle dosimetry in biodistribution or cellular uptake studies for hazard and risk assessment. Ideally for such purposes, any chemical processing post production should be avoided as it may change the physico-chemical characteristics of the industrially manufactured species. In many cases, proton irradiation of nanopa...

A precise test of the theory of stellar evolution can be performed by measuring the average difference in energy between the neutrino line produced by 7Be electron capture in the solar interior and the corresponding neutrino line produced in a terrestrial laboratory. This energy shift is calculated to be 1.29 keV (to an accuracy of a few percent) for the dominant ground-state to ground-state tr...