INTENSITY, BACKGROUND AND RESOLUTION WIDTH IN NUCLEAR COUNTING EXPERIMENTS,

Abstract

Some formulas for the evaluation of nuclear counting experiments with regard to their statistical accuracy are developed. Three types of measurements are considered: (1) simple counting, (2) location measurements, (3) intensity distribution measurements. The relation of the statistical uncertainty to other sources of error is discussed briefly, leading to the matching principle. Examples are drawn mainly from the field of inelastic scattering of thermal neutrons. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1964
Accession Number
AD0622670

Entities

People

  • G. Quittner

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Errors
  • Inelastic Scattering
  • Intensity
  • Measurement
  • Neutrons
  • Scattering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thermal Neutrons
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design