Data analysis software package for radionuclide standardization with a digital coincidence counting system

F Brancaccio; M S Dias; M F Koskinas; D S Moreira; F de Toledo

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108900

Data analysis software package for radionuclide standardization with a digital coincidence counting system

Appl Radiat Isot. 2020 Jan:155:108900. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108900. Epub 2019 Sep 23.

Authors

F Brancaccio¹, M S Dias², M F Koskinas², D S Moreira², F de Toledo²

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, IPEN-CNEN/SP, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 2242, 05508-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, IPEN-CNEN/SP, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 2242, 05508-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

PMID: 31590099
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108900

Abstract

The Nuclear Metrology Laboratory (LMN) - IPEN, São Paulo, Brazil - developed a Digital Coincidence System (DCS), based on the Coincidence Counting Methodology, in order to improve its capabilities in radionuclide primary-standardization. Digital process is implemented in two steps: data-acquisition (a set of measurements) and offline software data-analysis and calculation. The present work shows the basics of the data-acquisition unit (Software Coincidence System - SCS), describes the DCS' data-analysis process and the initial approaches chosen for the implementation of the software package (Coincidence Analyzing Task - CAT). ¹⁵²Eu standardization, performed for DCS testing, software expansion and validation, is briefly discussed.

Keywords: Coincidence method; Radionuclide standardization; Software coincidence; Software tools.