Re: Cal Range (etc)

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

Glen

You're quite right to be concerned about the spectrum of the radiation.
This is exactly the reason people use (or should use) energy-compensated
G-M detectors, when the field is not monoenergetic, or when the energy of
interest is significantly different from that of the calibration. Caveat
emptor, of course, because one still needs to bear in mind the response
curve of the instrument vs. the probable E('s) it's detecting.

chris a.
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu

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