Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Westphal, G. P.
• Lemmel, H.

Titel

The perfection of loss-free counting

Ist Teil von

• Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, 2008-06, Vol.276 (3), p.601-607

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Pileup losses in nuclear pulse spectrometry also depend on energy as lower energies produce narrower pulses which in turn have better chances to avoid pulse pileup. Consequently, in our present system individual energy-dependent pileup correction factors are calculated for all events, making it what very probably may be called the first perfect implementation of Loss-Free Counting. Temporal response and quantitative performance of the new system are tested over the whole range of counting rates (up to 10 6 c/s) and counting losses (up to 99%) by means of short-lived isomeric transitions and a fast rabbit system.