Feasibility study on the micro-foil internal conversion electron (MICE) detector application to high-temperature emission Mössbauer spectroscopy

Detailed calculations have been performed to assess potential applicability of the MICECEMS detector (CEMS - conversion electron Mossbauer spectroscopy) to the high temperature emission Mossbauer spectroscopy by means of the keV 41 . 14 transition in Fe 57 . The comparison was made with the standard transmission method using either proportional or semiconductor detector. It was found that for typical source matrices used in the investigations performed at high temperatures the MICE-CEMS detector yields poorer results than the high quality semiconductor detector. Therefore the development of the dedicated MICE-CEMS detector is unjustified for this particular application.