Avtor/Urednik		Jaćimović, Radojko; Trkov, Andrej
Naslov		Numerical stability in the k0-standardization method for the case of short irradiation and counting times
Tip		članek
Vir		J Radioan Nucl Ch
Vol. in št.		Letnik 245, št. 3
Leto izdaje		2000
Obseg		str. 649-52
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		The k0-standardization method of neutron activation analysis (NAA) is very sensitive to the irradiation and counting time during measurement of the induced radionuclide by y spectrometry on the HP Ge detector. If the irradiation and counting time of the sample and co-irradiated standard is relatively short or the decay wnstant small, the application of the standard equation in the software for the specific count rate may become numerically unstable and the program aborts. In this work, attention is focused on the direct influence of saturation and "measurement" factors on the specific count rate for simple decay and for more complex types calculated directly by exponential functions, and by an altemative form using a truncated Taylor's series expression.
Deskriptorji		NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS RADIOISOTOPES SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA