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Coincidence summing corrections using alternative detector characterization data

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We have shown that it is sufficiently accurate to use the MCNP peak-to-total calibration results to correct for cascade summing effects in a gamma-spectrum. Also, it is sufficient to use only approximate detector characterization data with empirical peak-to-total to obtain good cascade summing correction results. The intrinsic P/T-curve for detectors with the same efficiency is very similar and it may be considered a common characteristic of the whole detector's family with given efficiency.

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  1. Canberra Industries, 800 Research Parkway, Meriden, CT, 06450, USA

    M. J. Koskelo & R. Venkataraman

  2. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117975, Russia

    V. P. Kolotov

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Koskelo, M.J., Venkataraman, R. & Kolotov, V.P. Coincidence summing corrections using alternative detector characterization data. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 248, 333–337 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010611605081

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