—
Secon

pas APS

(HPGe) detector having a surface area of 19 em? and a thickness of
1.6 cm.

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The detector was suspended from a retractable pneumatic boom

740 cm above ground.

The boom was mounted to the rear of the Thiokol

IMP - a small, lightweight, tracked vehicle--modified and equipped to be
a fully self-contained, mobile, data-acquisition and reduction system.

Quantitative data can be obtained from in situ measurement by
combining a theoretical calculation of the flux at the detector as a
function of source and source distribution with an experimental calibration of the detector response to a given incident flux.

The un-

scattered flux of game rays of energy E at a height h above a smooth

-alr-ground interface resulting from en emitter distributed in the soil
(Fig. 2) is given by:

«

a S exp

PL go

[-(u_h sec 6 + 2% sece )7
a

47 (h sece

+ 2 sec 6)?

2> rdrdz,

(1)

where

S, = the source activity per unit volune (
.
Va,

¥o = the air and soil

tetal

photons),

Cm

ang

Sec

lineéar attenuetion

coefficients (cn!).

This expression assumes a source distribution that varies only with
depth.

For fallout activity the distribution after a period of time can

be reasonably approximated by an exponentia] distribution given by

s

= sf «7%

(2)

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