| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1830745 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Orphan source detection is hampered by fluctuations in the natural background. These fluctuations act as systematic errors that limit the effectiveness of large detectors during a search. Large detectors just map background variations more accurately, while small detectors are dominated by counting-statistics errors. This suggests that there is a maximum effective size for a search detector that occurs approximately where the two variances are equal.
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Authors
Klaus-Peter Ziock, Karl E. Nelson,