Development of a correction method for the time-of-flight prompt gamma-ray analysis

M. Huang; Y. Toh; M. Ebihara; A. Kimura; S. Nakamura

doi:10.1063/1.4978309

Development of a correction method for the time-of-flight prompt gamma-ray analysis

M. Huang^*, Y. Toh, M. Ebihara, A. Kimura, S. Nakamura

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A new analytical technique, time-of-flight prompt gamma-ray analysis, has been developed at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. In order to apply it to accurate elemental analysis, a set of Fe and Au reference samples were measured to examine the several factors which affect the number of detected events. It was found that major contributing factors included attenuations of neutrons and gamma rays in the sample, live-time fraction and signal pile-up correction. A simulation model was built for the estimation of neutron and gamma-ray attenuations. A simple empirical formula was proposed to calculate the signal pile-up correction factor. The whole correction method has proven to be accurate and reliable.

Original language	English
Article number	104901
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	121
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4978309
Publication status	Published - 2017 Mar 14
Externally published	Yes

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