• Title of article

    Experimental and simulated efficiency of a HPGe detector with point-like and extended sources

  • Author/Authors

    Karamanis، نويسنده , , D and Lacoste، نويسنده , , V and Andriamonje، نويسنده , , S and Barreau، نويسنده , , G and Petit، نويسنده , , M، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    477
  • To page
    487
  • Abstract
    The absolute efficiency of a high purity germanium (HPGe) detector was determined with a point-like calibrated 152Eu source at two distances from the detector and three pure metallic thorium foils of different thicknesses. The experimental values are compared with the ones determined with the simulation codes MCNP4B and GEANT 3.21. A procedure for HPGe absolute efficiency calibration is proposed for γ-ray energies higher than 200 keV.
  • Keywords
    HPGe detector , efficiency , thorium , Monte Carlo
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2020102