Basic bibliography
Radiation Detection and Measurements, 3rd edition
Author: Glenn F. Knoll
January 2000
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Gamma-Ray and X-Ray Spectrometry with Semiconductor Detectors
Authors: Klaus Debertin and Richard G. Helmer
January 1989
Publisher : North Holland, 1988
Practical Gamma-Ray Spectrometry
Authors : Gordon Gilmore and John D. Hemingway
March 1995
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Nuclear decay database
According to the 3NDWG meeting of 7 september 2005, the atomic and nuclear decay data contained within
Monographie BIPM-5 are recommended to ICRM members and co-workers for their future decay data studies.
The work involved in evaluating nuclear data is on-going and the recommended
values are updated on the LNHB website at http://www.nucleide.org/DDEP_WG/DDEPdata.htm.
Gamma ray spectra
A library of gamma ray spectra is published by Idaho National Laboratory - Gamma Spectrometry
Center.
(http://www.inl.gov/gammaray/catalogs/catalogs.shtml)
Software
Hereafter is included a list of software that can be useful for gamma-ray
spectrometrists. This is given only for information purposes and citation does
not mean that the working group recommends or supports these software. Any
hyperlinks are only given for convenience and do not imply any support from the
working group. Coincidence summing corrections
GESPECOR (Germanium Spectroscopy Correction Factors)
Contact : Octavian Sima (Bucharest University)
ETNA is a software for computing efficiency transfer and coincidence
summing corrections for gamma-ray spectrometry. The attached file (NT_Doc_etna_eng.pdf)
presents the software facilities and includes a user's manual.
The software has been developed at the Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel
and is available upon request.
Contact : Marie-Christine Lépy at LNHB
Tool for spectrum transfer
"SPECON is a converting utility between various spectrum files
having various binary formats. It can automatically identify 11 binary
formats and three ASCII formats. They can be completely converted to each
other including experimental information if possible. This software is also
useful as a spectrum viewer".
http://polywww.in2p3.fr/activites/autres/boudry/Specon.html
Peak fitting
The purpose of COLEGRAM is to accurately process experimental
spectra to separate overlapping components and derive individual areas for
each of them, especially in the 100 keV photon energy region including both
X-ray and gamma-ray peaks. The processing of different types of spectra is
achieved by fitting mathematical functions to experimental data sets.
Several types of functions can be used, depending on the kind of spectrum;
most of them are specific to a particular peak shape: alpha, gamma, X, or
beta. Functions for overall background shapes such as exponential or
polynomial, are also available. COLEGRAM uses the least squares fitting
method with the Marquardt-Levenberg algorithm and is based on a visual
management under the user's control.
The attached file (NT_Colegram.pdf)
presents the software facilities and its practical use.
The software has been developed at the Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel
and is available upon request.
Contact : Marie-Christine Lépy at LNHB
Attenuation coefficients
XCOM : Photon Cross Sections Database
M.J. Berger, J.H. Hubbell, S.M. Seltzer, J. Chang, J.S. Coursey, R. Sukumar,
and D.S. Zucker
"A web database is provided which can be used to calculate photon cross
sections for scattering, photoelectric absorption and pair production, as
well as total attenuation coefficients, for any element, compound or mixture
(Z £ 100), at energies from 1 keV to 100 GeV."
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Xcom/Text/XCOM.html
Bibliography by topics
The attached files include a non-exhaustive list of published articles in
relation with the main topics.
Coincidence summing
The attached file (Coincidence_summing_Biblio.doc)
gathers around 50 references sorted in the publication dates. They presents
either theoretical or practical methods, or experimental validations.
This is only a list without any judgment about the quality of the quoted
articles.
Monte Carlo methods applied to efficiency computation
The attached file (Monte_Carlo_Efficiency_Biblio.doc)
gathers around 20 references sorted in the publication dates. This is only a
raw list without any judgment about the quality of the quoted articles.
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