{"term":{"id":"08755","title":"pulse pile-up","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - pulse pile-up","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.08755","code":"08755","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Processing by a radiation counter of pulses resulting from the simultaneous absorption of independent particles or photons in a radiation detector, resulting in them being counted as one single particle or photon with energy between the individual energies and the sum of these energies.","sources":["PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 93 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2019-0302)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08755\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08755\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08755\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'pulse pile-up' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.08755","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-18T03:41:22+00:00"}}