Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fourth Edition by Nicholas Tsoulfanidis

By Nicholas Tsoulfanidis

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What is the probability of having 80 autoaccident fatalities during the coming year? Answer The Poisson distribution applies. 038 ≈ 4% 80 ! 3 shows the Poisson distribution for three different means. It should be pointed out that as the mean increases, the Poisson distribution becomes symmetric around the mean. For m = 20, the distribution is already, for all practical purposes, symmetric around the mean, and it resembles the normal distribution, which is discussed next. 3 ​Three Poisson distributions: (a) m = 5, (b) m = 10, and (c) m = 20.

1. 2 A basic pulse-type detection system. “black box,” that is, input and output are discussed without any details about how the output is obtained. Details about the construction and operation of individual units are given in later chapters. Detectors are discussed in Chapters 5 through 7, and the rest of the electronics is discussed in Chapter 10. Counting systems are classified into two types, according to the method of operation: 1. Pulse-type systems. The output consists of voltage pulses, one pulse per particle detected.

Pulses lower than 2 V will be rejected. For every pulse that is larger than 2 V, the discriminator will Introduction to Radiation Measurements 13 The scaler is a recorder of pulses. For every pulse entering the scaler, a count of 1 is added to the previous total. At the end of the counting period, the total number of pulses recorded is displayed. 7d shows the front panel of a typical commercial scaler. 12 The pulse at the output of a discriminator. 12) regardless of the actual height of the input pulse.

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