Determination of the emission probabilities of the principal γ-rays for 134Cs to a high precision

While multi-γ-ray emitting nuclides such as 75Se, 134Cs and 152Eu have reasonably well-defined decay scheme, some inconsistencies still remain. Detailed evaluations and weighted-mean analyses result in the recommendation of γ-ray emission probabilities with small uncertainties, although significant deviations exist in the measured values. Therefore, the γ-ray emission probabilities of 134Cs have been measured to a high precision after an extremely accurate calibration of detection efficiency. The resulting data agree extremely well with the evaluated values in IAEA-TECDOC-619 (IAEA, X-ray and γ-ray standards for detector calibration, IAEA-TECDOC-619, IAEA, Vienna, 1991).