activity
20092026
most citedEarly Results on Radioactive Background Characterization for Sanford Laboratory and DUSEL Experiments

32 citations · 64 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

nucl-ex2026

Reinvestigation of the Yield of the Trinity Device

Eric B. Norman, Keenan J. Thomas, Pedro V. Guillaumon

Previous published analyses of trinitite to determine the yield of the Trinity nuclear explosion used various estimates of the fraction of fission products that became incorporated…

physics.geo-ph2025

Measurement of Trace Elements in Volcanic Materials: Consequences for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction, Geoneutrinos and the Origin of the Hawaii's Archipelago

Pedro V. Guillaumon, Iuda D. Goldman, Eric B. Norman +5

Seventeen representative samples of volcanic origin were collected from Ecuador (Pichincha Volcano), Iceland (Eyjafjallajökull Volcano), India (Deccan Traps), Hawaii, Kilimanjaro,…

nucl-ex2015★ 19 cited

Cosmogenic-neutron activation of TeO2 and implications for neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments

Barbara S. Wang, Eric B. Norman, Nicholas D. Scielzo +3

Flux-averaged cross sections for cosmogenic-neutron activation of natural tellurium were measured using a neutron beam containing neutrons of kinetic energies up to 800 MeV,…

nucl-ex2014

Seaborg's Plutonium?

Eric B. Norman, Keenan J. Thomas, Kristina E. Telhami

Passive x-ray and gamma-ray analysis was performed on UC Berkeley's EH&S Sample S338. The object was found to contain Pu-239 and no other radioactive isotopes. The mass of Pu-239 c…

nucl-ex2014

Report on Gamma-Ray Analysis of Seaweed Samples from Naturespirit Herbs LLC

Eric B. Norman, Keenan Thomas, Pedro Guillaumon +1

Five seaweed samples from Naturespirit Herbs LLC were counted using low-background high-resolution gamma-ray detectors to search for evidence of contamination from the Fukushima re…

nucl-ex2009★ 32 cited

Early Results on Radioactive Background Characterization for Sanford Laboratory and DUSEL Experiments

D. -M. Mei, C. Zhang, K. Thomas +1

Measuring external sources of background for a deep underground laboratory at the Homestake Mine is an important step for the planned low-background experiments. The naturally occu…

nucl-ex2009★ 13 cited

TThe {\sc Majorana} Project

The MAJORANA collaboration

The {\sc Majorana} Project, a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment is described with an emphasis on the choice of Ge-detector configuration.