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| Author(s): |
Zwinglio de Oliveira Guimarães Filho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2004-08-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Otaviano Augusto Marcondes Helene;
Mauro da Silva Dias;
Luiz Paulo Geraldo;
Nilberto Heder Medina;
Giorgio Moscati
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| Advisor: | Otaviano Augusto Marcondes Helene |
| Abstract | |
This work presents the procedure which we have developed and employed to determine the values to be adopted for the energies of a set of gamma-rays in common use as calibration standards, publishing for the fist time their respective covariance matrix. Several correlations with absolute values exceeding 0.8 were found, revealing the necessity of considering correctly the covariance matrix in any analysis to be done with the use of these standards in order not to interfere with the quality of the analysis. The procedure here presented considers correctly the relation between the gamma-ray energies (given in eV) and the fundamental constants h, e, c, and the lattice parameter (aSi), allowing the updating of the set with respect to the 2002 recommended values for those constants. A methodology for the inclusion of new experimental results in the set of standards, in a way which preserve its selfconsistency, was also developed in this work. In this method the updating of the whole set of standards is performed in a single step, while considering adequately the covariances. Finally, the standard set recommended here and the methodology developed in this work were employed to analyze data of gamma-rays measurement which follow the 233U decay and therewith to decide about the adequacy of three different nuclear structure models for 229Th and the excitation energy of its nuclear states. The energy of the first excited state of 229Th, a meta-stable state of less than 10 eV, was determined taking into account those different models. (AU) | |