Effect of photon interaction depth in the determination of absolute efficiency of HPGe detector for liquid volume souce
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Date
2003
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National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan / Institute of Nuclear Physics
Abstract
For practical measuring purposes in high pure Ge detectors, some useful semiempirical approaches are often used to calculate the peak efficiency (absolute efficiency) for any source-to-detector distance (d) if the efficiency has been measured at one known distance (d1). In all approaches considered, normally, one
begins an experimental efficiency calibration for single measuring geometry at a distance (d1), and then derives the efficiency for any other arbitrary distance (d), from the relation
∈(d) = Ω (d)
∈(d1) = Ω (d1)
where ∈ denotes the detector efficiency for any gamma ray energy and Ω is solid angle that is subtended by detector to the source position. However, this relation is only valid when the distances used in the relation was corrected for the effective photon interaction depth for any gamma-ray energy (Debertin and Helmer,
1988;Yücel et al.1996) since the efficiency ratio, ∈(d)/∈(d1), is not equal to the inverse ratio, d1-2/d-2. In the present work, the photon interaction depths depending upon gamma- ray energies in the range of about 50-2000 keV for point gamma sources (241Am, 137Cs, 60Co, 133Ba and 152Eu) and a liquid volume (cylindrical) source containing 57Co, 88Y, 113Sn, 137Cs, 109Cd, 139Ce and 60Co radionuclides were measured. Then, the calculation of the peak efficiency of a ptype HPGe detector is experimentally tested for both point and the extended (cylindrical) liquid source at various distances from the surface of the end cap of the detector by introduction of the effective photon interaction for any gamma-ray energy.
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TENMAK D.N.3326
Keywords
HPGe detector, HPGe dedektörü, Liquid volume soruce, Sıvı hacim kaynağı, HPGe detector, HPGe dedektörü, Photon interaction depth, Foton etkileşim derinliği
Citation
Demirel, H. ... [ve arkadaşları]. (2003). A neutronic and thermal-hydraulic visual computer code for TR-2. The Second Eurasian Conference on Nuclear Science and Its Application : Presentations, 1.c., (s.202-215). 16-19 September 2002. Almaty : Kazakhstan.