pandemonium effect
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A problem that leads to inaccurate results from high-resolution gamma ray detectors in cases of beta decay when the decay product has a large Q value because the decay product has too many possible energy excitation levels with too much variation in the amount of energy emitted by different levels.
Example Sentences
- "If we have a beta decay that suffers from the pandemonium effect, the mean gamma energies will be underestimated and the beta energies will be overestimated."
- "The pandemonium effect obviously has major consequences for decay heat calculations."
Inflected Forms
the pandemonium effect (canonical)