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== Equipment required: == | == Equipment required: == | ||
A wishlist most important first | 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. I intend to make one but it is going to take some time. | ||
* 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 ;( | ||
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