Efficiency transfer in the calibration of a coaxial p-type HpGe detector using the Monte Carlo method |
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Authors: | M. Jurado Vargas, N. Cornejo Dí az,D. P rez S nchez |
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Affiliation: | a Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz 06071, Spain b Centro de Protección e Higiene de las Radiaciones, P.O. Box 6195, Habana, Cuba |
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Abstract: | Monte Carlo simulation was applied to the efficiency transfer exercise described in the EUROMET428 project (Appl. Radiat. Isot. 55 (2001) 493), evaluating the peak efficiencies in the energy range 60–2000 keV for a typical coaxial p-type HpGe detector and several types of source configuration: point sources located at various distances from the detector and a cylindrical box containing three matrices. The efficiency values were derived in two ways: (a) by direct calculation taking into account the physical dimensions of the detector provided by the supplier, and (b) by means of relative computation (efficiency transfer) taking also into consideration the known efficiency values for a reference point source. As expected, some significant discrepancies between the calculated and experimental values were found when a direct computation was made using the data provided by the supplier. On the contrary, the results for the peak efficiency derived by relative calculation by means of an efficiency transfer were in good agreement with the experimental values. The deviations found with this last procedure were generally below 5% for all the geometries considered, which is entirely satisfactory for the purposes of routine measurements. |
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Keywords: | Gamma-ray spectrometry Efficiency calibration HpGe detectors |
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