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Title: THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF THE VARIANCE OF THE CORRELATION METHOD FOR THE TWOFOLD PROMPT RADIOACTIVE DECAY CHAIN WITH NONCONSTANT SOURCE

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4015870

A time correlation method for investigating two connected nuclear disintegrations is studied. The method permits the investigation of daughter activities in equilibrium with long lived parents without the count rate restrictions imposed on the usual coincidence method by the occurrence of accidental coincidences. The average value and variance of the correlation measurement are theoretically evaluated for the case of a prompt parent-daughter cascade with negligible background in which the parent decay during the experiment is not negligible. (auth)

Research Organization:
North Carolina State Coll., Raleigh
DOE Contract Number:
DA-01-009-ORD-820
NSA Number:
NSA-15-017557
OSTI ID:
4015870
Report Number(s):
OOR-2543:3
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English