Solidang, a computer code for the computation of the effective solid angle and correction factors for gamma spectroscopy-based waste assay

M. Bruggeman; R. Carchon

doi:10.1016/S0969-8043(99)00243-2

Solidang, a computer code for the computation of the effective solid angle and correction factors for gamma spectroscopy-based waste assay

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Abstract

Detection efficiency calibration of gamma spectroscopy for waste assay systems is a difficult and time-consuming task. Commonly, reference waste packages are used for efficiency calibration but these are sometimes difficult to build, are expensive and have limited use since there is large variability of parameters which influence the assay. Numerical calibrations, however, are an interesting alternative and have begun to find more and more application in waste assay. A dedicated computer code, Solidang, has been developed to compute detection efficiencies for gamma waste assay. Solidang uses the effective solid angle approach to derive detection efficiency and aims at improving and facilitating the calibration of gamma waste assay systems and at serving as a tool to investigate the influence of the many system and sample parameters involved. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	771-776
Number of pages	6
Journal	Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Volume	52
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-8043(99)00243-2
State	Published - Mar 2000
Event	The Conference on Radionuclide Metrology and its Applications, ICRM '99 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 7 Jun 1999 → 11 Jun 1999

Funding

The authors would like to thank the European Commission for financial support of this work under Contract FI4W-CT96-0036.

Funders	Funder number
Not added	FI4W-CT96-0036

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