Nuclides & Physics
This isotope emits two gammas at 1173/1332 nearly 100% of the time
What is Co-60
This file can be modified to change the half-life cutoff used for all analyses
What is the B30WINDS.INI file
The only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields - and did so while attending college illegally.
Who is Marie Curie
The ratio of the amplitude of the output signal of an amplifier to the amplitude of its input signal.
What is Gain
The extension given to a file created by the Analyze→Settings→Sample Type option
What is SDF
The decay process that results in the largest change in mass of a nucleus?
What is alpha decay
This analysis value is calculated based solely on the background value of a given peak
What is Minimum Detectable Activity (MDA)
The first person to discover evidence of radioactivity
Who is Antoine Becquerel
A device which collects the charge carriers from the detector and passes a pulse to the amplifier.
What is a pre-amplifier
The job file command to erase the data, real time and live time for the selected detector
The property that defines a photons energy
A type of calibration method which has a "knee"
What is quadratic fit
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays
Who is Wilhelm Rontgen
A device that generates a logic output signal when the input signal exceeds a preset threshold level
What is a "Discriminator"
They only GammaVision analysis engine which offers Manual-Based peak stripping
What is WAN32
Of all the nuclear fuels, this one has the smallest critical mass
What is Pu-239
The type of efficiency calibration
What are betas
This physicist discovered the neutron and was the head of the British team on the Manhattan project
Who is James Chadwick
This term is the ratio between the number of selected pulses recorded per unit time to the number of photons emitted by the source per unit time
What is detector efficiency
The analysis option used to generate negative peak areas for singlet and multiplet peaks.
What is "Directed Fit"
Strontium, Radium, Samarium and Plutonium are members of a category of elements which are called this as it relates to the human body
What are "bone seekers"
Fixed by this atmospheric element during photosynthesis, it can be used to calculate the date of a tree
What is Carbon-14
A unit of measurement for the activity of 1 gram of Ra-226 or 3.7x1010 Bq
What is the curie
This hardware interfaces between the detector components and peripherals & keeps track of counts per channel
What is an MCA
This term is shown on the GammaVision report is a measure of how well the spectrum peak energies match those in the library
What is "Normalized Difference"