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UNISAMPO, comprehensive software for gamma-spectrum processing

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UNISAMPO is a new member of the SAMPO family of gamma-spectrum analysis programs running on Linux. Its portable graphical user interface relies on Tcl/Tk running an X-client, which obtains services from an X Window System server, allowing natural access to UNISAMPO over the Internet. UNISAMPO features a scripting ability for analyses of thousands of spectra. Peak search is based on stringent statistical criteria and peak fitting has optional step function under each peak of a multiplet. UNISAMPO will analyze 32K spectra with up to 2500 peaks, and 32 peaks in a single multiplet extending over a fitting interval of 1024 channels. It has an interface to the expert system SHAMAN for extensive peak interpretation and radionuclide identification.

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  1. Laboratory of Advanced Energy Systems, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015, HUT, Finland

    P. A. Aarnio & J. T. Routti

  2. CTBT National Data Centre, FIN-00881, Helsinki, Finland

    M. T. Nikkinen

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Aarnio, P.A., Nikkinen, M.T. & Routti, J.T. UNISAMPO, comprehensive software for gamma-spectrum processing. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 248, 371–375 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010623924645

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