Energy calibration procedure for γ-radiation and conversion electron spectra using level scheme a priori information

Abstract A procedure for energy calibration of gamma- and electron-line spectra using a priori information about the relationships between gamma-ray and conversion electron energies and their corresponding peak positions in the spectrum has been developed in the GTLM computer program. The transition energy estimations and the excited states' energies of the nucleus under investigation are calculated using all the experimental data available from different experiments and the relationships deduced from the level scheme. The minimised function consists of five terms having as parameters the coefficients of the energy calibration curves (polynomials) and the level energies of the nucleus under investigation. The procedure was tested with two γ-spectra, in the energy range 1.5–8 MeV, measured with the pair spectrometer at the High Flux Reactor of the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL), Grenoble and allowed us to estimate transition energies with uncertainties of 10 eV.