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A tabulation of about 2000 precise gamma-ray energies of about 250 isotopes formed through neutron activation has been used for the computer-assisted identification of the individual gamma emitters in complex gamma spectra. The identification consists in the calculation of the gamma-ray energies from the peak maximum position by taking into account the deviation from linearity of the spectrometer. Successive comparison of these energies with the energies of the tabulation allows then identification. The identification procedure was tested on a number of samples of varying complexity and satisfactory results were obtained.
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Dams, R., Adams, F. Automated identification of isotopes in neutron activated samples. J. Radioanal. Chem. 4, 311–323 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02513673
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02513673