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Results of the measurements carried out in order to verify the validity of the poisson-exponential distribution in radioactive decay events
F. CannizzaroE. SinagraG. GrecoS. Rizzosubject
RadiationExponential distributionSeries (mathematics)Interval (mathematics)Poisson distributionsymbols.namesakeDistribution (mathematics)Nuclear Energy and EngineeringStatisticssymbolsOrder (group theory)Data collectingRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingRadioactive decayMathematicsdescription
Abstract Berkson, examining a series of 250,000 disintegration time intervals, found a significant departure of the distribution from the Poisson-exponential law. Therefore he proposed to repeat the experiment using a large number of intervals and to check the interval recordings by using more than one recording instrument simultaneously. Accepting these suggestions we developed two systems of data collecting provided with different controls. In several experiments we collected data for more than one million decay intervals. The results elaborated using the Pearson ξ 2 test reflect a Poisson process of the radioactive decay events.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-11-01 | The International Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes |