IAEA test spectra

Width calibrations from the IAEA Test spectra (1995). 

The 2002 IAEA test spectra for low-level g-ray spectrometry software, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res., A, 536, 189-196. 

More recent software performance studies have been published and are discussed in more detail below. The report on the NPL standard spectra by Woods et al. (1997) considered nine spectrum analysis programs. Another independent comparison of twelve software packages has been published by the IAEA as TECDOC-1011 (IAEA (1998)) using the 1995 IAEA test spectra (see below) and another report following the 2002 software intercomparison using the 2002 IAEA test spectra has been published (Arnold et al. (2005)). 

IAEA Test Spectra including download www.tnw. tudelft.nl then use search box using iaea as keyword. 

For inter-comparison purposes of y-ray spectra or for testing the computer software for y-analysis, the IAEA has created a standard y-spectrum using the progeny of Ra i.e., decay chain products of Ra including Rn gas and other isotopes like Pb, Bi, °Pb, °Bi, etc. (Blaauw et al. 1997). 

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