ACCURACY OF THE CORRELATION METHOD FOR APPRECIABLE RADIOACTIVE PARENT DECAY. Technical Report No. 5
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4824610
The average value, variance, and fractional standard deviation were theoretically evaluated for the statistical correlation method proposed by Gold'anski and Podgoretski for investigating radioactive cascades in secular equilibrium. The method provides the same information as the conventional coincidence method with the important difference that there are no inherent accidental coincidences. The case of a prompt parent-daughter cascade with arbr- trary uncorrelated background activity in which the change in the source decay rate during the experiment is not negligible was treated. A new correlation function is proposed for this case which has an average value proportional to the cascade source strength and is independent of uncorrelated background activity that decays with the same half life as the cascade. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- North Carolina State Coll., Raleigh. School of Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-022850
- OSTI ID:
- 4824610
- Report Number(s):
- AROD-2543:7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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