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Calibrating a spectrum

 

To identify peaks with transition energies from a decay you need a relation between the channels of your spectrum and their corresponding energies (calibration). To calibrate a spectrum, you need to identify two peaks in the spectrum or a calibration from a calibration spectrum. The energies of these positions can be determined from a calibration spectrum. If you know two channels and their corresponding energies, you can define the calibration with the command:

tv > calibration position enter < chn 1> < energy 1> < chn 2> < energy 2>

If you have a calibration in a file you can load it. To load a calibration you can either use the hotkey E to load the default calibration file *.cal or you switch to the text-mode and enter the full command:

tv > calibration position read < calfile >

You can abbreviate this command with:

tv > c p r < calfile >



Andreas Fitzler
7/13/2000