[Improvement of resolution of positron annihilation radiation energy spectrum measurement by data analysis (author's transl)].
Recently much attention is being paid to positron annihilation radiation energy spectrum measurement as a simple method that gives information about the momentum distribution of an annihilating pair. However, this method has a disadvantage that it is sensitive to drifts of the measuring system and the resolution is still insufficient. We have succeeded to reduce the influence of the drifts to a negligibly small degree by using, in addition to the necessary procedure for a temperature control and stabilizing of AC power lines, a compensation technique in data analysis. We have further attempted to improve the resolution by deconvolution processing. By these procedures, we have been able to separate a narrow component which has not otherwise been resolved directly from the spectrum. The resolution attained by this way is 0.43 keV (FWHM), and is two- or three-fold superior to those ever reported.
D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013051:Spectrometry, Gamma