• Title of article

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

  • Author/Authors

    M. Jurado Vargas، نويسنده , , A.L. Guerra، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    1319
  • To page
    1322
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    Efficiency calibration , Monte Carlo simulation , Gamma-ray spectrometry , Ge detectors
  • Journal title
    Applied Radiation and Isotopes
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Applied Radiation and Isotopes
  • Record number

    548070