EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COUNT-LOSS EFFECT DUE TO THE TIME-INTERVAL BETWEEN COUNTING-GATES IN THE FEYNMAN-ALPHA METHOD

Citation
Ejm. Wallerbos et Je. Hoogenboom, EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COUNT-LOSS EFFECT DUE TO THE TIME-INTERVAL BETWEEN COUNTING-GATES IN THE FEYNMAN-ALPHA METHOD, Annals of nuclear energy, 25(4-5), 1998, pp. 203-208
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
ISSN journal
03064549
Volume
25
Issue
4-5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
203 - 208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-4549(1998)25:4-5<203:EIOTCE>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Yamane and Hayashi derived a new formula for the variance-to-mean rati o that takes the channel advance time of a multi-channel scaler into a ccount. If the channel advance time is much smaller than the channel w idth (as in practice), then its effect can be numerically shown to be negligible. It might be for this reason that experimental results that validate the new formula have never been published. However, by intro ducing an artificial long channel advance time equal to the width of o ne channel, the effect becomes significant and can be demonstrated exp erimentally. With these experimental results, the new formula could be validated. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.