Is it safe to use Poisson statistics in nuclear spectrometry?

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 501-506

  Pomme S ^a   Robouch, P ^b   Arana, G ^b   Eguskiza, M ^b   Maguregui, M I ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SPECTROMETRY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033921935     PISSN: 02365731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006770612213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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