Meaning of pandemonium effect | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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.”

“The pandemonium effect obviously has major consequences for decay heat calculations.”

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