becquerel (bq) v0.4.0

Software · Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211007.1· OSTI ID:1824340 · Code ID:65403

Bandstra, Mark ^[1]; Persaud, Arun ^[1]; Curtis, Joey ^[1]; Chow, Chun Ho ^[1]; Hellfeld, Daniel ^[1]; Salathe, Marco ^[1]; Vavrek, Jayson ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Becquerel is a Python package for analyzing nuclear spectroscopic measurements. The core functionalities are reading and writing different spectrum file types, fitting spectral features, rebinning spectrum counts to different bin edges, performing detector calibrations and interpreting measurement results. It also includes tools for visualizing radiation spectra and fits of different spectral features, as well as convenient access to tabulated nuclear data both from remote servers and local caches. It relies heavily on the standard scientific Python stack of numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, and numba. It is intended to be general-purpose enough that it can be useful to anyone from an undergraduate taking a laboratory course to the advanced

• Short Name / Acronym: becquerel
• Project Type: Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
• Site Accession Number: 2021-164
• Software Type: Scientific
• License(s): BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOD DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY; USDOE

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC02-05CH11231
  Other Award/Contract Number:

  AWD505
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• Code ID: 65403
• OSTI ID: 1824340
• Country of Origin: United States