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Calibration for newcomers

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nuclearphoenixNuclearPhoenix 05/21/2023 at 14:380 Comments

Most of you will already know this, but for newcomers, here is the essence of how to calibrate the Open Gamma Detector. If you have your complete device with a scintillator, you only need a sample that has well-known gamma-ray energies. You can use these to calibrate the bin axis and then export the calibration.

In this video I'm using two tiny LYSO scintillators as a Lu-176 source. This isotope has two very well-known gamma peaks that are ideal for a very simple linear calibration.

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