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On the decay of cobalt 60

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Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and nuclei

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The gamma spectrum from Cobalt 60 decay has been investigated with a 40 cc Ge(Li) detector. A peak at 822 keV is shown to be not a gamma transition but a single escape peak and an upper limit of 10 is given to the branching ratio of the 2158 keV level.

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  1. Physics Department, Bedford College, University of London, Great Britain

    Peter Rice-Evans & Zin Aung

  2. Physics Department, Arts and Science University, Rangoon, Burma

    Zin Aung

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The authors wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Thomas, Mr. P. Pal and Professor H. O. W. Richardson for their help and interest; and to acknowledge the financial support from the Science Research Council. One of us (Z.A.) also wishes to thank the Government of the Union of Burma for the award of a scholarship.

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Rice-Evans, P., Aung, Z. On the decay of cobalt 60. Z. Physik 240, 392–395 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01395575

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