'The source emits alpha particles of energy' button | |
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Selects an alpha emitter that emits alpha particles of given energy to be simulated. Selecting this option enables further options you can use to specify the energy of the emitted alpha particles and the number of decays to simulate. See specifying the emitted alpha particle energy |
'Select alpha particle emitting radionuclide from list' button | |
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Selects a nuclide to be used as the alpha emitter. Selecting this option enables further options allowing you to choose the nuclides and the library to use. See specifying the alpha particle emitting nuclide |
Specifying the emitted alpha particle energy |
'The emitted energy' field | |
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Sets the energy in MeV of the alpha particles emitted from the source. Values are required to be > 0. |
'The number of decays' field | |
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Sets the number of decays i.e. the number of alpha particles emitted to simulate. Values are required to be > 0. |
Specifying the alpha particle emitting nuclide |
The nuclide selection list | |
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The
nuclide selection list allows you to select a nuclide from currenly
loaded nuclide library (the name of the library is displayed above).
Once the nuclide is selected, information about it will be displayed
below, and it may be moved to the selection using the add nuclide to selection button. |
The 'open library' button | |
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The
open library button allows you to open a nuclide library from which to
select the nuclides for simulation. Pressing this button will open a
file chooser dialog from which you may choose the appropriate library.
The nuclides in the library will then be displayed in the nuclide selection list. Important: You cannot mix nuclides from different libraries in a simulation, if the currently selected nuclides aren't found in the opened library, they are removed from the selection. |
The 'add nuclide to selection' button | |
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The add nuclide to selection button adds the nuclide selected in the nuclide selection list into the nuclides selected for simulation table. The nuclide is now set as an alpha emitter in the source for the simulation. |
The 'remove nuclide from selection' button | |
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The remove nuclide from selection button removes the nuclide selected in the nuclides selected for simulation table. |
The 'nuclides selected for simulation' table | |
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The
nuclides selected for simulation table displays the nuclides that will
be used as alpha emitters in the simulation. For each nuclide to be
used, a name and number of decays is displayed. Edit the number of
decays column to specify the number of decays for each nuclide as
desired, values are required to be > 0. |
The nuclide info view | |
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The nuclide info view displays information about the nuclide selected currently in the nuclide selection list. Half life, natural abundance and alpha lines are shown. |