GammaRayX 2021

GammaRayX Anniversary Seminar

Welcome to the GammaRayX Anniversary Seminar page of the GammaWiki web. Here you will find information on the upcoming GammaRayX Anniversary Seminar on gamma spectrometry that will be held at STUK, Helsinki 8-10 September 2020.

The GammaRayX activity involves an anniversary seminar covering various aspects of gamma-ray spectrometry and intercomparison exercises. The Roman numeral X in the acronym refers to the tenth event in the series of famous gamma-ray spectrometry seminars. The scope of the seminar will be broad allowing a range of topics to be considered. For example, following areas could be included (but are not limited to these):

Laboratory, in-situ and field measurements

Whole body measurements

Uncertainty calculations

Efficiency determination

Spectrum analysis and data management

Monte Carlo simulations

Nuclear forensics

Novel/new approaches

The intercomparison exercises cover analyses of samples distributed to participants and measured in their laboratories and analyses of exercise gamma spectra distributed to participants.

International experts will be invited to the seminar to give presentations on different aspects and new developments in gamma-ray spectrometry. Participants are encouraged to give presentations on subjects of their choice, describing their applications of gamma-ray spectrometry and possible challenges encountered, new developments in detectors, electronics and data analysis. We strongly invite seminar attendees to give “spontaneous” short presentations (5-10 min) on their work. These short presentations will give us better opportunities to get to know each other during the seminar. Participation of students and young scientists is highly welcome.

Overview and background

This work is supported by the Nordic Nuclear Safety Research (NKS). GammaWiki is a resource webpage for Nordic users of gamma spectrometry. GammaWiki is a product of the NKS GammaSpec 2016 activity, which is an independent continuation of the GammaUser (2014), GammaTest (2013), GammaWorkshop (2011-2012), and GammaSem (2009) activities.

A page with links to individual information pages for previous workshops can be accessed here.

Registration form

The registration form for workshop participants is available herehere. Please fill in and send it by e-mail to the address mentioned in the form. Deadline for the registration is 28 August 2020, but we would appreciate if you express your intention to participate as soon as possible. The deadline is 29th of May if you participate in the intercomparison (see text below).

Get-together on ...

In the evening of ... we kindly offer you to a casual get-together where we have the chance to meet and have some drinks and snacks.

We sincerely hope to see you all there.

Seminar agenda

The workshop agenda will be found [... here].

Time and place

The GammaRayX workshop will be held in Helsinki, Finland 8.-10. September 2020.

The venue for the workshop is STUK.

Seminar cost

No seminar fee will be charged.

Exercise spectra and samples

If you are interested in taking part in intercomparison measurements/analyses, please contact us as instructed in the registration form.

The Organizers

• Roy Pöllänen (STUK)
• Henrik Ramebäck (FOI)
• Sven Nielsen (DTU)
• Anna Rand (IFE)
• Thomas Bandur Aleksandersen (IFE)
• Kjartan Guðnason (IRSA)