Correction for Phosphor Backscattering in Electron Scintillation Spectrometry

1 September 1956

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 27 (9), 716-719
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1715680

Abstract

An iterative numerical integration procedure has been developed to correct both beta spectra and differential beta‐gamma directional correlations for the effects of finite instrument energy resolution including the effect of backscattering from a scintillation detector. The method has been tested and found to reproduce the true spectral shape in the cases of Re¹⁸⁶, Au¹⁹⁸, Tl²⁰⁴, and to allow separation of composite beta spectra as in the case of W¹⁸⁷. Application of the method is limited to maximum beta energies exceeding 200 kev.

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