Ratio of germanium detector peak efficiencies at photon energies of 4.4 and 11.7 MeV: Experiment versus simulation

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

Volumn 618, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 190-198

  Carson, Spencer ^a   Iliadis, Christian ^b,c   Cesaratto, John ^b,c   Champagne, Art ^b,c   Downen, Lori ^b,c   Ivanovic, Marija ^d   Kelley, John ^c,e   Longland, Richard ^b,c   Newton, Joseph R ^b,c   Rusev, Gencho ^c,f   Tonchev, Anton P ^c,f  

^a GORDON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Full energy peak efficiencies; Gamma ray spectrometry; High Ray energy; HPGe detector; Monte Carlo simulations; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GERMANIUM; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGULAR CORRELATIONS; COINCIDENCE-SUMMING; FULL-ENERGY PEAK EFFICIENCIES; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; HPGE DETECTORS; NUCLEAR ASTRO-PHYSICS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77958468146     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.02.128     Document Type: Article

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