A Special Studies Project

Adapt our new computer-controlled multichannel analyzer and the new Gamma Vision Software to the X-ray detector. This involves running the X-ray detector with radioactive check sources, understanding the peak search, and deciding on a workable energy calibration. It also involves using the Nuclide Navigator master library to create a separate library of X-ray K and L shell lines. Some of these X-ray lines are attached to the gamma ray lines of radioactive nuclei. Others need to be entered. The software resides on the same Pentium 200-class computer that controls the analyzer.

Prerequisite: Completion of Physics 316 where the older X-ray multichannel analyzer system was introduced.

The student will earn 2 units for doing the experiment and producing a written outline for future students on how to use the system.

Contact me for details. My office hours are MW 10-10:50 in Darwin 333.