dagg3r
Apr16-06, 07:25 PM
A radioactive material emits 2 gamma rays with 2 energies 50 keV and 200 keV with equal probabilities the detector system has a quantum efficiency of 100% and 50% respectively at these 2 energies and the pulse heights are 1.0 mV and 4.0mV respectively. The pulses are input into a 512 channel, 10 V lfull scale, MCA. The total system has an energy resolution of 20 keV.
Suggest an appropriate gain of the MCA amplifier
i sketched the displayed spectrum... also looking at the solutions they somehow got a gain of 2*10^3 with the pulse height of 4.0 mV at a channel 409 corrresponding to 8 V.
any ideas how htey got that gain and the channel number corresponding to the pulse height?
i tried fiddling round with the formulas given of
energy resolution = (FWHM / pulse height at centre of peak) * 100%
no luck.. somehow they got a gain of 2*10^3 for a plot that is num of counts vs channel number...
hope you guys know
Suggest an appropriate gain of the MCA amplifier
i sketched the displayed spectrum... also looking at the solutions they somehow got a gain of 2*10^3 with the pulse height of 4.0 mV at a channel 409 corrresponding to 8 V.
any ideas how htey got that gain and the channel number corresponding to the pulse height?
i tried fiddling round with the formulas given of
energy resolution = (FWHM / pulse height at centre of peak) * 100%
no luck.. somehow they got a gain of 2*10^3 for a plot that is num of counts vs channel number...
hope you guys know