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Why would gamma spectroscopy be a tool for nuclei?
I am very much familiar with Atomic spectroscopy, not much with nuclear spectroscopy.
In atoms (electronic cloud), we have electromagnetic interaction that plays the leading role, whose exchange ...
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Gamma spectroscopy - Nuclide identification
I have a question about what the usual practice is for nuclide identification in gamma spectroscopy.
For example, if I see a line at 477 keV, I would write that the origin of this line is $^7Be$. As ...
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Gamma spectroscopy - Do annihilation photons produce a backscatter peak?
Below is a diagram of part of a structure which I find in a gamma spectrum taken from a hall in which a neutron source is undergoing spallation.
The structure which I'm interested in can be seen ...
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Coincidence summing in gamma spectrum
Question on coincidence summing here. I've been reading about the coincidence summing effect when a radionuclide has two energy levels that decay to another state in rapid succession.
There is also ...
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