The processing by a radiation
spectrometer of pulses resulting from the simultaneous adsorption of independent particles or
photons in a
radiation detector. As a result they are counted as one single particle or photon with energy between
the individual energies and the sum of these energies.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 2513
(Nomenclature for radioanalytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 2523