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Study of the germanium dead layer influence on HP(Ge) detector efficiency by Monte Carlo simulation
摘要： Introduction The dead layer thickness provided by the manufacturer increases with the aging of the HPGe detector; the increase of dead layer thickness leads to the decrease in the detector’s ef?ciency, not only due to gamma rays attenuation in the dead layer but also due to the reduction of the active volume of the detector. Purpose In this work, the dead layer in?uence on HPGe detector ef?ciency was studied by Monte Carlo simulation. Materials and methods The detector model was developed using Monte Carlo N Particle (MCNP5) code for adjustment of the dead layer thickness; the adjustment was performed according to a speci?c irradiation con?guration by collimation approach using three reference point sources: 241Am (59.5 keV), 137Cs (661.6 keV) and 60Co (1173.2 keV; 1332.5 keV). Result The calculated ef?ciencies were compared to the measured intrinsic ef?ciency ones for these point sources; a good agreement between Monte Carlo and measurements results was found after the experimental validation. Conclusion The results con?rm the variation in the dead layer thickness according to aging of the detector; the average change of dead layer is in order of 1.30 ± 0.05 mm after 9 years.
关键词： Dead layer thickness,Detector ef?ciency,Monte Carlo simulation,Point sources,HPGe detector
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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[IEEE 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) - Atlanta, GA, USA (2017.10.21-2017.10.28)] 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) - Detector response function of a HPGe detector to photon energies between 200 keV and 1.5 MeV for Gamma-ray nondestructive assay instrument
摘要： A semi-empirical detector response function (DRF) model of HPGe detector was proposed to fit gamma-ray nondestructive assay transmission spectra. The model for each single peak contained a step function, a Gaussian function, and an exponential tail function. The Gaussian standard deviation obtained by electronic noise and Fano factor, so our DRF only had 4 parameters and they were obtained by the weighted nonlinear least-squares fitting method. In the application, 152Eu spectra were obtained by using the 30%, 50%, 70% HPGe detector, and fitted by the established DRF model. Reduced chi- square values were at the interval of 0.039-0.202. Its validity that the model had good versatility, can be applicable to different detection efficiency of HPGe detectors.
关键词： gamma-ray nondestructive assay,HPGe detector,semi-empirical model,detector response function
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14