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*14:30-15:15 : Parallel sessions - software specific, practical work (all lecturers) | *14:30-15:15 : Parallel sessions - software specific, practical work (all lecturers) | ||
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Revision as of 09:06, 23 September 2011
Gamma Workshops 2011 - Programme
Monday
- 10:00-11:30 : Registration
- 11:30-13:00 : Lunch
- 13:00-13:10 : Welcome and practical information: Matrix and absorption corrections
- 13:10-13:30 : Methods for characterizing detectors and samples (Tim Vidmar)
- 13:30-14:00 : External source method (Elisabeth Strålberg)
- 14:00-14:30 : Efficiency method – general introduction (Tim Vidmar)
- 14:30-14:45 : Coffee
- 14:45-14:55 : Proof-of-principle (Tim Vidmar)
- 14:55-15:05 : Description of a study testifying to the equivalence of the available efficiency transfer codes (Tim Vidmar)
- 15:05-15:25 : Demonstration of the EFFTRAN code and its application to self-absorption (Tim Vidmar)
- 15:25-15:35 : Treatment of the Marinelli beaker geometry (Sima method) (Sigurður Emil Pálsson)
- 15:35-15:45 : Coffee
- 15:45-17:00 : Practical computer work, three exercises (Tim Vidmar), including short descriptions of the codes:
- Density and composition correction – same geometry of sample and standard
- Full extended-source-to-extended source transfer
- Point source to extended source transfer
- 17:00-17:30 : Discussions - questions
- 19:30 : Dinner in Roskilde
Tuesday
True Coincidence Summing corrections
- 09:00-09:45 : General introduction to TCS – (Menno Blaauw)
- 10:00-10:45 : General introduction to TCS (cont.)
- 11:00-11:45 : General introduction to TCS (cont.)
- 11:45-12:30 : Lunch
- 12:30-13:15 : Introduction to other softwares for TCS corrections (Tim Vidmar)
- 13:30-14:15 : Parallel sessions - software specific – Genie (Gerhard Fritz) and GammaVision (Menno Blaauw)
- 14:30-15:15 : Parallel sessions - software specific, practical work (all lecturers)
- 15:30-17:30 : End of Tuesday's workshop – summing up, and last chance for questions
Wednesday
- 09:00-10:30 : Natural radioactivity and gamma spectroscopy (Tuukka Turtiainen)
- Short recap: Decays series and interesting photopeaks
- Often measured matrices, special characteristics of: Uranium, Thorium-232, Radium-226, Thorium-228, Pb-210 and Po-210
- Exercise 1: Review of some recent articles
- 10:30-10:45 : Coffee
- 10:45-12:15 : Radioactive decay series and a simple procedure for solving the Bateman equations (Sigurður Emil Pálsson)
- Radioactive decay series, the Bateman equations
- Compartmental models - setting up problems involving radioactive decay series as compartmental models
- An effective procedure for solving compartmental models (presented in SMath Studio, freeware similar to MathCad)
- Exercise 2 (from presentation on Natural radioactivity): Calculating decay and in-growth in environmental samples
- 12:15-12:30 : Summing up of morning's workshops, questions
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-16:00, Uncertainties and detection limits (including GUM and ISO-11929:2010) (Henrik Ramebäck)
- 13:30-14:00 : Some small remarks: The GUM method: from definition of the measurand to reporting measurement results
- 14:15-15:00 : The model equation in gamma spectrometry, and a tool for uncertainty propagation
- 15:00-16:00 : Workshop example: Calculating combined uncertainty in gamma ray spectrometry
- 16:15:17:00 : Characteristic limits, ISO 11929 (Kaj Heydorn)