DECSERVIS: a tool for radioactive decay series visualisation

• Authors: Saad Azzam , Juhani Suksi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We have developed an interactive visualisation tool, decay series visualisation (DECSERVIS), for exploring the three natural radioactive decay chains. Through DECSERVIS, one can investigate the full decay scheme of any natural decay chain radionuclide to obtain the number of nuclides, their masses, activities, and activity ratios, accounting for all the daughters, starting from initial conditions freely chosen by the user. The tool has been developed particularly for user friendly and flexible operation. Chain decay in closed systems can be explored as a function of time with various graphical presentations such as solid curve and column diagrams or animation. We present several exploration examples related to geological dating. DECSERVIS will be freely available on request.

Keywords

EN

Natural decay series; decay series modelling; geological dating

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Chemistry
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 822-834

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2006

online

1 - 12 - 2006

Contributors

author

Saad Azzam

• Laboratory of Radiochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, PO Box 55, Helsinki, Finland

author

Juhani Suksi

• Laboratory of Radiochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, PO Box 55, Helsinki, Finland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11532-006-0026-0