Complexities of gamma-ray line intensities from the lunar surface
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Published:2008-04
Issue:4
Volume:60
Page:313-319
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ISSN:1880-5981
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Container-title:Earth, Planets and Space
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Earth Planet Sp
Author:
Yamashita Naoyuki,Hasebe Nobuyuki,Miyachi Takashi,Kobayashi Masanori,Okudaira Osamu,Kobayashi Shingo,Ishizaki Takeshi,Sakurai Kunitomo,Miyajima Mitsuhiro,Reedy Robert C.,d’Uston Claude,Maurice Sylvestre,Gasnault Olivier
Abstract
Abstract
Assuming different abundances of the Apollo lunar soil samples and the average spectrum of galactic cosmic ray protons, energy spectra of neutrons and gamma rays and emission rates of gamma-ray lines from major elements have been estimated by using the reviewed Monte Carlo simulation library Geant4 and nuclear data. Previously, such libraries were not able to reproduce gamma-ray lines properly for the planetary application. Results clearly show that the emission rate of gamma rays heavily depends not only on the chemical abundance but also neutron flux within the lunar subsurface. While the intensities of gamma-ray lines are mostly proportional to elemental abundances, the intensity per unit elemental abundance can vary. Such a complex correlation is attributed to the change in neutron flux within the lunar subsurface and petrological restriction of elemental variation.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Geology
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