文摘
Lithium titanate is a proposed tritium breeding blanket material in D-T based fusion reactor under International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor programme. For optimization of sol–gel preparation method and chemical quality control, compositional characterization of Li2TiO3 was carried out by particle induced gamma-ray emission using 8?MeV proton beam at BARC–TIFR pelletron facility. For the first time, a non-destructive method has been standardized for simultaneous determination of Li, Ti and O in this ceramic sample, which is otherwise difficult by various wet-chemical as well as radio-analytical methods. Thick targets of samples, synthetic samples and standards prepared in graphite matrix were used for the experiment. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry method was used for beam current monitoring using a thin Au foil. The gamma-rays at 478, 983 and 6129?keV from 7Li(p, p′ο7Li, 48Ti(p, p′ο48Ti and 16O(p, p′ο16O nuclear reactions, respectively, were measured using high resolution gamma-ray spectrometry and corresponding peak areas were used for concentration calculations by relative method.