Quantifying radionuclide signatures from a γ–γ coincidence system》.pdf

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 149 (2015) 158 e163 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Environmental Radioactivity journal homepage: /locate/jenvrad Quantifying radionuclide signatures from a geg coincidence system * Richard Britton , Mark J. Jackson, Ashley V. Davies AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 4PR, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A method for quantifying gamma coincidence signatures has been developed, and tested in conjunction Received 13 May 2015 with a high-efficiency multi-detector system to quickly identify trace amounts of radioactive material. Accepted 23 July 2015 The geg system utilises fully digital electronics and list-mode acquisition to timeestamp each event, Available online 4 August 2015 allowing coincidence matrices to be easily produced alongside typical ‘singles’ spectra. To quantify the coincidence signatures a software package has been developed to calculate efficiency and cascade Keywords: summing corrected branching ratios. This utilises ENSDF records as an input, and can be fully automated, Gamma-spectrometry allowing the user to quickly and easily create/update a coincidence library that contains all possible g and Coincidence measurements Coincidence library conversion electron cascades, associated cascade emission probabil