Development of a procedure for hyper-pure germanium detector response calibration combining experimental measurements with Monte Carlo simulations

• Processo: 10/52616-7
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Data de Início da vigência: 01 de setembro de 2011
• Data de Término da vigência: 31 de agosto de 2014
• Área do conhecimento: Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Física - Física Nuclear
• Acordo de Cooperação: DFG
• Pesquisador responsável: Nora Lia Maidana
• Beneficiário: Nora Lia Maidana
• Pesquisador Responsável no exterior: Lorenzo Brualla Barberá
• Instituição Parceira no exterior: University of Duisburg-Essen, Alemanha
• Instituição Sede: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brasil
• Assunto(s): Espectroscopia de raio gama
• Palavra(s)-Chave do Pesquisador: Efficiency Calibration | Gamma Spectroscopy | Montecarlo Simulations | Response Function | Semiconductors Detectors

Resumo

Knowledge of the efficiency curve of hyper-pure germanium (HPGe) detectors is essential for a broad range of applications. However, its accurate determination requires lengthy and costly experiments. Although there have been some attempts in the past to produce a method based on Monte Carlo simulations of the detector to make less difficult to obtain the efficiency curve, none of them has reached accuracies better than 5%. During the proposed project we intend to perform a systematic study of all major parameters that determine the agreement between an experimental and a simulated efficiency curve. We shall take into account the dimensions of the crystal, the modeling of dead layers, the incomplete charge collection, the electric field in the detector and charge carrier traps. The objective is to produce a method for determining the efficiency curve in which not only the agreement of the full energy peak is sought, but also of the single and double escape peaks and the continuum part of the spectrum. (AU)

Publicações científicas

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MAIDANA, NORA L.; VANIN, VITO R.; GARCIA-ALVAREZ, JUAN A.; HERMIDA-LOPEZ, MARCELINO; BRUALLA, LORENZO. Experimental HPGe coaxial detector response and efficiency compared to Monte Carlo simulations. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, v. 108, p. 64-74, FEB 2016. (10/52616-7)

BRUALLA, LORENZO; MAIDANA, NORA L.; VANIN, VITO R.. Determination of the detection efficiency of a planar HPGe detector with a non-uniform frontal dead layer. X-RAY SPECTROMETRY, v. 44, n. 3, p. 4-pg., 2015-05-01. (10/52616-7)

BRUALLA, LORENZO; MAIDANA, NORA L.; VANIN, VITO R.. Determination of the detection efficiency of a planar HPGe detector with a non-uniform frontal dead layer. X-RAY SPECTROMETRY, v. 44, n. 3, SI, p. 89-92, MAY-JUN 2015. (10/52616-7)

MAIDANA, NORA L.; VANIN, VITO R.; JAHNKE, VIKTOR; FERNANDEZ-VAREA, JOSE M.; MARTINS, MARCOS N.; BRUALLA, LORENZO. Efficiency calibration of x-ray HPGe detectors for photons with energies above the Ge K binding energy. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SP, v. 729, p. 371-380, NOV 21 2013. (10/19699-6, 10/52616-7)