Glossary Entries:

• A
  • Accelerator sources
  • Accuracy
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• B
  • Band gap
  • Binding energy
  • Binomial distribution
  • Bremsstrahlung
  • Build-up factor
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• C
  • Cadmium cut-off
  • Chi-square
  • Cold neutron
  • Compton continuum
  • Conduction band
  • Conductor
  • Confidence level
  • Critical limit
  • Cross section
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• D
  • Detection limit
  • Deuteron stripping
  • Doppler broadening
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• E
  • Electron hole pair
  • Epithermal neutron
  • Exciton
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• F
  • Fast neutron
  • Four valent
  • Frequency distribution
  • Full energy peak
  • FWHM
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• G
  • Gamma ray photon
  • Gamma ray spectroscopy
  • Gaussian distribution
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• H
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• I
  • Insulator
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• J
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• K
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• L
  • Linear attenuation coefficient
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• M
  • Mass attenuation coefficient
  • Mean
  • Mean free path
  • Minimizing
  • Minimum detectable activity (MDA)
  • Monoenergetic
  • Most probable value
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• N
  • Nuclear Instrumentation Module (NIM)
  • N-type
  • Nucleon
  • Nuclide
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• P
  • P-type
  • Pair production peak
  • Photoelectron
  • Photo sources
  • Poisson distribution
  • Positron
  • Precision
  • Probability
  • Probability distribution
    
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• Q
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• R
  • Radioactive sources
  • Random uncertainty
  • Reactor sources
  • Recoil electron
  • Rest mass
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• S
  • Semiconductor 
  • Single and double escape peaks
  • Slow neutron
  • Sodium-22
  • Spallation
  • Spontaneous fission
  • Standard deviation
  • Systematic uncertainty
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• T
  • Thermal neutron
  • Twice rest mass
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• U
  • Uncertainty
  • Upper limit
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• V
  • Valence band
  • Variance
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• W
  • Weighted mean
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• X
  • X-ray fluorescence
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• Y
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• Z