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pandemonium effect

pandemonium effect proper noun: a problem that leads to inaccurate results from high-resolution gamma ray detectors in cases of beta decay when the decay product has a large Q value because the decay product has too many possible energy excitation levels with too much variation in the amount of energy emitted by different levels.

Proper noun

the pandemonium effect

  1. A problem that leads to inaccurate results from high-resolution gamma ray detectors in cases of beta decay when the decay product has a large Q value because the decay product has too many possible energy excitation levels with too much variation in the amount of energy emitted by different levels.
    • If we have a beta decay that suffers from the pandemonium effect, the mean gamma energies will be underestimated and the beta energies will be overestimated.2012, Amir Mesquita, Nuclear Reactors, page 78
    • The pandemonium effect obviously has major consequences for decay heat calculations.2014, Juha Äystö, Tommi Eronen, Ari Jokinen, IGISOL, page 247

Questions about pandemonium effect

What does pandemonium effect mean?
Pandemonium effect means a problem that leads to inaccurate results from high-resolution gamma ray detectors in cases of beta decay when the decay product has a large Q value because the decay product has too many possible energy excitation levels with too much variation in the amount of energy emitted by different levels.
What part of speech is pandemonium effect?
Pandemonium effect is a proper noun.

Words near pandemonium effect in the dictionary

  1. pandemonism
  2. pandemonistic
  3. pandemonium
  4. pandemonium architecture
  5. pandemonium architectures
  6. pandemonium effect
  7. pandemoniums
  8. Pandemos
  9. pandemy
  10. pandenominational
  11. pander

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