1. Pile-up corrections for high-precision superallowed decay half-life measurements via -ray photopeak counting
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Grinyer, G.F., Svensson, C.E., Andreoiu, C., Andreyev, A.N., Austin, R.A.E., Ball, G.C., Bandyopadhyay, D., Chakrawarthy, R.S., Finlay, P., Garrett, P.E., Hackman, G., Hyland, B., Kulp, W.D., Leach, K.G., Leslie, J.R., Morton, A.C., Pearson, C.J., Phillips, A.A., Sarazin, F., and Schumaker, M.A.
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PARTICLE accelerators , *ELECTRON beams , *FIELD programmable gate arrays , *NUCLEAR physics - Abstract
Abstract: A general technique that corrects -ray gated decay-curve data for detector pulse pile-up is presented. The method includes corrections for non-zero time-resolution and energy-threshold effects in addition to a special treatment of saturating events due to cosmic rays. This technique is verified through a Monte Carlo simulation and experimental data using radioactive beams of implanted at the center of the -ray spectrometer at the ISAC facility at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada. The -decay half-life of obtained from counting 1809-keV -ray photopeaks emitted by the daughter was determined to be following a correction for detector pulse pile-up. This result is in excellent agreement with the result of a previous measurement that employed direct counting and demonstrates the feasibility of high-precision -decay half-life measurements through the use of high-purity germanium -ray detectors. The technique presented here, while motivated by superallowed-Fermi decay studies, is general and can be used for all half-life determinations (e.g. -, -, X-ray, fission) in which a -ray photopeak is used to select the decays of a particular isotope. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2007
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