Pile-up corrections for high-precision superallowed β decay half-life measurements via γ-ray photopeak counting

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 579, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1005-1033

  Grinyer, G F ^a   Svensson, C E ^a   Andreoiu, C ^a   Andreyev, A N ^b   Austin, R A E ^c   Ball, G C ^b   Bandyopadhyay, D ^a   Chakrawarthy, R S ^b   Finlay, P ^a   Garrett, P E ^a,b   Hackman, G ^b   Hyland, B ^a   Kulp, W D ^d   Leach, K G ^a   Leslie, J R ^e   Morton, A C ^b   Pearson, C J ^b   Phillips, A A ^a   Sarazin, F ^f   Schumaker, M A ^a   Smith, M B ^b   Valiente Dobon J J ^a   Waddington, J C ^g   Williams, S J ^b   Wong, J ^a   Wood, J L ^d   Zganjar, E F ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b TRIUMF   (Canada)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ray counting; Detector pulse pile up; High precision half life measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERMI LEVEL; GAMMA RAYS; ISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

DETECTOR PULSE PILE-UP; ENERGY-THRESHOLD EFFECTS; HIGH PRECISION HALF LIFE MEASUREMENTS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 34547841280     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.323     Document Type: Article

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