EMILIA, the LS counting efficiency for electron-capture and capture-gamma emitters

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-46

  Carles, A Grau ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS Y FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electron capture decay; Liquid scintillation counting; Radioactivity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLUTIONS; X RAYS;

ATOMIC REARRANGEMENT DETECTION; ELECTRON-CAPTURE DECAY; LIQUID-SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 29144517500     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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