Transfer of detector efficiency calibration from a point source to other geometries using ETNA software

Romanian Reports in Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-64

  Radu, Daniela ^a   Stanga, Doru ^a   Sima, Octavian ^b  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Coincidence summing; Efficiency calibration; Gamma ray spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949703835     PISSN: 12211451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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