On the measurement of the activity of a radioactive source and a related stochastic process.
A method is presented to compute the activity of a radioactive source. The principle of the method is based on the tuning of b, the time constant of the RC circuit of the detector with l being the rate of emission of the source, using a statistical argument. The stochastical process involved refers to the distribution of the following random voltage: Vt = ∑(0 < ti ≤ t) Yi c-b(t - t...