Data from multi year and multi radiation detector measurements of different radiation sources with environmental data

Braden Goddard; George W Hitt; Dorian Bridi; Abdel F Isakovic; Reyad El-Khazali; Ayman Abulail

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105828

Data from multi year and multi radiation detector measurements of different radiation sources with environmental data

Data Brief. 2020 Jun 7:31:105828. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105828. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Braden Goddard¹, George W Hitt², Dorian Bridi³, Abdel F Isakovic⁴, Reyad El-Khazali⁵, Ayman Abulail⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, United States.
² Department of Physics and Engineering Science, Costal Carolina University, 109 Chanticleer Drive East, Conway, SC 29526, United States.
³ Independent consultant, Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Department of Physics, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
⁵ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Abstract

The data described consists of radiation measurement outputs from several different detectors located in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for the duration of 30 November 2014 through 13 December 2016. This data could be useful for anyone studying radiation count rate or spectroscopic changes over a multi year period from various radiation sources and measurement systems. The outputs of the measurement systems include 1) counts per 20 min from a Geiger-Muller detector measuring ⁹⁰Sr, 2) counts per 20 min from a Geiger-Muller detector measuring ²⁰⁴Tl, 3) radiation spectra per 30 min from a NaI detector measuring ⁶⁰Co, 4) radiation spectra per 30 min from a NaI detector measuring ⁵⁴Mn, 5) radiation spectra per 30 min from a liquid scintillation detector measuring ²²⁶Ra, 6) counts per 30 min from a liquid scintillation detector measuring ¹⁴C, and room pressure, temperature, and humidity data every 10 min. A detailed description of the setup of each of these measurement systems can be found in "Experimental Setup and Commissioning Baseline Study in Search of Time-Variations in Beta-Decay Half-Lives" [1].

Keywords: Continuous measurement; Decay constant; Decay fluctuations; Detector stability; Radiation, half-life; Radioactive decay.