Application of a Statistical Correlation Function for Determining Daughter Half-Lives in the Range 10−4 to 10−1 Second

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1 October 1956

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 27 (10) , 838-843
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1715390

Abstract

Discussed herein is the application of a statistical correlation method [Goldanski and Podgoretski, Doklady Akad. Nauk. S.S.S.R. 100, 237 (1955)] to the determination of the lifetime of an activity in equilibrium with a long‐lived parent activity. It is shown that this method has a definite advantage over delayed‐coincidence methods when the lifetime to be measured is of the order of 10⁻⁴ sec or longer. An electronic apparatus designed to perform the operations required by the statistical correlation method is described. This equipment has been used for a new determination, 0.293±0.020×10⁻³ sec, for the half‐life of Y^88m.

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