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X-ray and gamma-ray standards for detector calibration

Abstract

The IAEA established a Co-ordinated Research Programme (CRP) on the Measurements and Evaluation of X- and Gamma-Ray Standards for Detector Efficiency Calibration in 1986 with the aim of alleviating the generation of such discrepancies. Within the framework of this CRP, representatives of nine research groups from six Member States and one international organization performed a number of precise measurements and systematic in-depth evaluations of the required decay data. They have also contributed to the development of evaluation methodology and measurement techniques, and stimulated a number of such studies at laboratories not directly involved in the IAEA project. The results of the work of the CRP, which was finished in 1990, are presented in this report. Recommended values of half-lives and photon emission probabilities are given for a carefully selected set of radionuclides that are suitable for detector efficiency calibration (X-rays from 5 to 90 keV and gamma-rays from 30 to about 3000 keV). Detector efficiency calibration for higher gamma-ray energies (up to 14 MeV) is also considered. The evaluation procedures used to obtain the recommended values and their estimated uncertainties are reported, and a summary of the remaining discrepancies is given. Refs and tabs.
Publication Date:
Sep 01, 1991
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
IAEA-TECDOC-619
Reference Number:
SCA: 440103; PA: AIX-23:015099; SN: 92000646959
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 1991
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; GAMMA DETECTION; CALIBRATION STANDARDS; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; CALIBRATION; X-RAY DETECTION; X-RAY SPECTROMETERS; COMPILED DATA; COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IAEA; PERFORMANCE; RADIATION DETECTORS; 440103; NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTATION
OSTI ID:
10113231
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 1011-4289; Other: ON: DE92615125; TRN: XA9230328015099
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
157 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

None. X-ray and gamma-ray standards for detector calibration. IAEA: N. p., 1991. Web.
None. X-ray and gamma-ray standards for detector calibration. IAEA.
None. 1991. "X-ray and gamma-ray standards for detector calibration." IAEA.
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title = {X-ray and gamma-ray standards for detector calibration}
author = {None}
abstractNote = {The IAEA established a Co-ordinated Research Programme (CRP) on the Measurements and Evaluation of X- and Gamma-Ray Standards for Detector Efficiency Calibration in 1986 with the aim of alleviating the generation of such discrepancies. Within the framework of this CRP, representatives of nine research groups from six Member States and one international organization performed a number of precise measurements and systematic in-depth evaluations of the required decay data. They have also contributed to the development of evaluation methodology and measurement techniques, and stimulated a number of such studies at laboratories not directly involved in the IAEA project. The results of the work of the CRP, which was finished in 1990, are presented in this report. Recommended values of half-lives and photon emission probabilities are given for a carefully selected set of radionuclides that are suitable for detector efficiency calibration (X-rays from 5 to 90 keV and gamma-rays from 30 to about 3000 keV). Detector efficiency calibration for higher gamma-ray energies (up to 14 MeV) is also considered. The evaluation procedures used to obtain the recommended values and their estimated uncertainties are reported, and a summary of the remaining discrepancies is given. Refs and tabs.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1991}
month = {Sep}
}