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. 2021 Aug 10;81(8):722. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09476-z

Table 3.

Experimental input and final results of the delayed coincidence analysis. Both for 238U and 232Th decay chain we quote: the number of parent candidates (NP), net of background subtraction; the number of detected coincidences (NC) with their binomial uncertainties; the ratio between surface and bulk contamination activities (r) and their absolute values (Ab, As). We quote the r result for 232Th chain with an asymmetric uncertainty range to exclude negative non-physical values

Decay chain 238U 232Th
NP 4868±70 3118±56
NC 4442±20 2030±27
NC/NP (91.2±0.4)% (65.1±0.9)%
r 0.24 ± 0.06 0.03-0.03+0.11
Ab (μBq) 146±4 108±5
As (μBq) 35±8 3-3+11