Response function of a germanium detector to photon energies between 6 and120 keV

Citation
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
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
457
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
212 - 219
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(20010111)457:1-2<212:RFOAGD>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
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.