Cs137 - Ratio between 662 KeV peak and Compton edge

[Sesselmann]

Tim,

That's right you got it now..

Elaborate inventions have been created to suppress compton, but at what cost ?

https://www.berkeleynucleonics.com/compton-suppressors

Steven

[tim.hbn]

Hi Steven

Thank you very much indeed for your help with this.

I have been working on some code extensions to Impulse for putting the compton scatter back where it belongs, but I am not sure at this stage if the juice is worth the squeeze.

Elaborate inventions have been created to suppress compton, but at what cost ?

It seems like you are trying to do this via a software approach instead of a hardware approach.

I am thinking that an algorithm could be created which once calibrated using perhaps a Cs137 source, could then search for all photo peaks in a spectrum and then subtract all of the Compton scattering associated with each found photo peak. Is this what you are trying to do?

I am thinking that the algorithm might also be able to narrow the FWHMs of each found photo peak. Basically the algorithm would completely reconstruct the spectrum. What do you think? (EDIT: I edited this paragraph shortly after posting this message.)

Thank you very much.

Kind regards

Tim

[Sesselmann]

Tim,

I wrote a post about this a few months ago here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1072

Sorry I should have written a more meaningful subject line.

Steven

[tim.hbn]

Hi Steven

No worries and thank you very much indeed for all of your help with this.

Kind regards

Tim