GRPANL: A program for fitting complex peak groupings for gamma and X-ray energies and intensities
Abstract
A general purpose peak fitting program (GRPANL) is that calculates gamma ray and X-ray energies and intensities from a given spectral is described. The program requires that the user supply input information such as the first and last channels of the region, the channel to be used as pre and post region background, the system gain and zero intercept, and a list of approximate energy values at which peaks occur in the region. Because the peak position and peak shape parameters enter nonlinearly into the peak fitting algorithm, an iterative least square procedure is used in the fitting process. The program iterates until either all convergence criteria are met or ten iterations have elapsed. The code described allows for twenty free parameters and a region as large as 240 data channels. This code runs on an LSI 11 computer with 32 K memory and disk storage capability.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980gpfc.rept.....G
- Keywords:
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- Energy Spectra;
- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- X Ray Spectra;
- Algorithms;
- Computer Programs;
- Curve Fitting;
- Iteration;
- Least Squares Method;
- Minicomputers;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics