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== Equipment required: == | == Equipment required: == | ||
A wishlist most important first | |||
* The main thing we are lacking is a multichannel analyser, this is an apparatus that digitizes pulses generated by a detector and presents them as a histogram of pulse height (and therefore radiation energy) against number of pulses received thus generating a spectra of the energy of radiation incident upon the detector. | * The main thing we are lacking is a multichannel analyser, this is an apparatus that digitizes pulses generated by a detector and presents them as a histogram of pulse height (and therefore radiation energy) against number of pulses received thus generating a spectra of the energy of radiation incident upon the detector. | ||
* A better scintilator would be nice, my chunk of NaI is going cloudy ;( | * A better scintilator would be nice, my chunk of NaI is going cloudy ;( | ||
* Lead! lots of lead. Background radiation is everywhere and really gets in the way when trying to get a spectra for low activity items, Lead several inches of lead shielding around the detector and item under study prevents this. | |||
* More NIMs are always good... you can't have too many! | * More NIMs are always good... you can't have too many! | ||
* Any CAMAC kit. (CAMAC is a newer version of | * Any CAMAC kit. (CAMAC is a newer version of NIM with a digital backplane. would be nice play with!) | ||
== Proposed uses: == | == Proposed uses: == |
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