| <p>Placed a hand held rad monitor near the faraday cup and took rate readings every 20 seconds, right after inserting the gate valve in front of SEC:</p>
<p>seconds counts/s</p>
<p>0 590<br />
20 499<br />
40 474<br />
60 400<br />
80 353<br />
100 290<br />
120 259<br />
140 234<br />
160 207<br />
180 187<br />
200 175<br />
220 146<br />
240 135<br />
260 124<br />
280 120<br />
300 109<br />
320 107<br />
340 103<br />
360 85<br />
380 86<br />
400 84<br />
420 94<br />
440 81<br />
460 76<br />
480 76<br />
500 74</p>
<p>Then fitted this for half life.</p>
<p>Assuming a steady state background of 70 cps, and using the first 7 data points... the half life comes out as 82.1 +/-3.9 s.</p>
<p>Excellent agreement with known halflife of 59Cu.</p>
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