Feasibility study on the micro-foil internal conversion electron (MICE) detector application to high-temperature emission Mossbauer spectroscopy

摘要

Detailed calculations have been performed to assess the potential applicability of the micro-foil internal conversion electron (MICE)-conversion electron Mossbauer spectroscopy (CEMS) detector to high-temperature emission Mossbauer spectroscopy by means of the 14(41 keV transition in Fe-57. The comparison was made with the standard transmission method using either proportional or semiconductor detector. It was found that for typical source matrices used in the investigations performed at high temperatures the MICE-CEMS detector yields poorer results than the high-quality semiconductor detector. Therefore the development of the dedicated MICE-CEMS detector is unjustified for this particular application.