Applications of the uranium's set of isotopes for nuclear dating: the Monte-Carlo method

摘要

The new abilities of the method of standard sets of nuclides (SSN) supplemented by the procedure of statistical testing for geochemical studies and nuclear dating are presented. The method allows one move from point-like to probabilistic dating procedures when both the age of the sample and the statistical errors of its determination can be estimated. Low background gamma-spectrometric experiments were carried out for samples of rocks of the Carpathian Mountains and calculations for their dating by using the SSN of the series U-238 were made. The dependence of the reliability of nuclear dating on the quality of the low background experiment is discussed too.