论文信息 - Application of PENELOPE code to the efficiency calibration of coaxial germanium detectors.

Application of PENELOPE code to the efficiency calibration of coaxial germanium detectors.

The code PENELOPE is applied here to the efficiency calibration exercise described in the EUROMET project 428 [Lépy et al., 2001. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 55, 493]. We evaluated the peak efficiencies for a coaxial HPGe detector in the range 60-2000 keV, for point sources located at various distances from the detector and for a cylindrical box containing two different matrixes: a low-density silica and a hydrochloric acid solution. After an optimization of several detector parameters, the results were in good agreement with the experimental values.

A. Guerra | M Jurado Vargas | A L Guerra | M. Jurado Vargas

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