03595 IUPAC Gold Book - live time 10.1351/goldbook.L03595 L03595 current 1 For a measurement, the time during which a radiation measuring assembly is capable of processing events occurring in the radiation detector. It equals the clock time minus the integrated resolving or dead time (to be distinguished from 'life time'). dead time https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/D01529 radiation detector https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/R05054 PAC, 1994, 66, 2513. 'Nomenclature for radioanalytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 2522 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199466122513) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/L03595/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/L03595/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/L03595/plain Citation: 'live time' 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.L03595 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. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . 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. 2026-04-17T19:58:46+00:00