The influence of dead layer thickness increase on efficiency decrease for a coaxial HPGe p-type detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 621, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 390-394

  Quang Huy, Ngo ^a  

^a INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Dead layer; Efficiency decrease; Gamma spectrometry; HPGe detector; MCNP5 code

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VOLUMES; CANBERRA; DEAD LAYERS; DETECTOR EFFICIENCY; GAMMA ENERGY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HPGE DETECTORS; MCNP5 CODES; OPERATION PERIOD; OPERATION TIME; P-TYPE; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SHIELDING EFFECT; VOLUME EFFECT;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GERMANIUM; SHIELDING; SPECTROMETRY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77957916785     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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