Jy. Zevallos-chavez et al., Response function of a germanium detector to photon energies between 6 and120 keV, NUCL INST A, 457(1-2), 2001, pp. 212-219
We have developed a function to describe the response of an 8-cm(3) germani
um detector to photon energies as low as 6 keV. going up to 120 keV. Detect
ion effects like the Ge X-ray escape and Compton scattered photons in the n
eighborhood of the detector were treated. This study was based on the fit o
f analytic functions to the features of the experimental spectra, thus reve
aling the parameters and their dependence on the photon energy. Our respons
e function has 13 parameters and its validity is shown by the reproduction
of the parameter-generating spectra and through the independent fit of an E
u-152 spectrum. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.