Difference between revisions of "LB 170048 Nickel Foil Consistency Check"
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Note that these are not statistically the same. | Note that these are not statistically the same. | ||
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+ | ==Thin Window Method== | ||
+ | Repeat this analysis using the "thin window expand by sigma" method. | ||
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+ | The information for the rear outer foil can be seen below | ||
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+ | {| border="3" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" | ||
+ | || || 5/23/17 || 5/26/17 || 5/29/17 || 5/30/17 | ||
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+ | ||Original Window || [[File:170048 004 RearFoil 5 23 17.png|100px]] || [[File:170048 004 RearFoil Pos30 5 26 17.png|100px]] || [[File:170048 004 RearFoil Pos10 5 29 17.png|100px]] || [[File:170048 004 RearFoil Pos10 5 30 17.png|100px]] | ||
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+ | ||Expanded Window || | ||
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+ | ||Original Background (Integrated) || | ||
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+ | ||Expanded Window Background (Integrated) || | ||
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+ | ||BG Average || | ||
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+ | ||Integral of Original Window || | ||
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+ | ||Integral of Expanded Window || | ||
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+ | ||Integral Difference || | ||
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+ | ||Counts || | ||
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+ | ||Signal (BG subtracted Counts) || | ||
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+ | ||Efficiency || 8.9e^-5 +/- 1.8e^-6 || 4.22e^-4 +/- 4.671e^-6 || 0.0031 +/- 3.71e^-5 ||0.0031 +/- 3.71e^-5 | ||
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+ | ||.dat file entry || | ||
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Revision as of 19:03, 22 January 2018
Since the Selenium activities are not matching predicted values, check nickel foils from the front and rear to try and get that the activity is the same. Below is a table of pictures and information from ROOT sessions. For each of these, the spectrum was weighted by the inverse of the mass. For the front foil the mass was 1.3310g and for the rear foil the mass was 1.2196g. If the background subtraction is negative, take the mean of the two numbers.
To find the error in the background, the expanded window's background was subtracted from the original window's background. The signal was found by integrating the gaussian over the original window with an adjusted amplitude, which has been background subtracted and fed into mathematica.
The information for the rear foil is shown below
The plots for the half lives are shown below
Now we can find the initial activity of each of the foils. There is no time correction needed for 170048-003 as its first measurement is set to t = 0. So we can find the activity with
The activity of the front foil (170048-003) is 428347.47 +/- 6766.18 Hz
Now since the rear foil's time stamp has the initial measurement of the front foil as 0 on the t-axis, we shouldn't need to time correct this either.
The activity of the rear foil (170048-004) is 385325.23 +/- 6487.72 Hz
Note that these are not statistically the same.
Thin Window Method
Repeat this analysis using the "thin window expand by sigma" method.
The information for the rear outer foil can be seen below