IAEA 2002 Test Spectra

Brief details of the spectra are given on the TUD website. There is more detail in the downloadable files. Please note that these spectra, and the associate companion material, are made available to you on this site by permission of Menno Blaauw as a private person, not under the aegis of the IAEA.

The spectrum set is very comprehensive and this is no place to go into full details. Spectra were created in a variety of different spectrum formats (SPE, CHN and ASC), They were obtained by measuring sources in Marinelli and pillbox geometries. Calibration spectra in both geometries are provided with a number of point source spectra of individual nuclides intended to allow true coincidence summing corrections to be made (in fact, the only set of test spectra to do that). There is also a special calibration spectrum to allow GammaVision to perform those corrections using the algorithms developed by Menno Blaauw and colleagues.

The documentation is very full, with description of the source geometries and copies of the nuclide supplier's calibration certificates. An interesting aside.

• The ReadMe file
• The full Package (1.5 Mb)
• Documentation (pdf 887 kB)
• Publication on the spectra (pdf 67 kB)
• The Intercomparison (pdf 125 kB)

• Primary dowload site

References

The 2002 IAEA intercomparison of software for low-level g-ray spectrometry Arnold, D., Menno Blaauw, M., Fazinic, S. and Kolotov, V.P., Nucl. Instr. Meth. A536 (2005)196-210

Specialized software utilities for gamma ray spectrometry, Final report of a co-ordinated research project
IAEA-TECDOC-1275, March 2002

Internet Resources:
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/aqcs/reports.shtml
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/aqcs/archive_al_reports.htm