Variation of Energy Resolution with Distance for a NaI(Tl) Detector

• Authors: İ. Akkurt , S. Arda , K. Gunoglu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

As the nuclear radiation has started to be used in a variety of different fields, it is important to be protected from it, and thus the radiation measurement becomes vital. The quality of the performance of a detection system, used for the energy measurements, is important. It is characterized by the width of the pulse-height distribution, obtained for the particles of the same energy (monoenergetic source). The energy spectrum of a radiation source depends on the type and energy of the incident particle and the type of the detector. In this work the energy resolution of a 3"×3" NaI(Tl) detector has been measured for photon energies of 511, 662, 835, 1173, 1275, and 1332 keV, and its variation with the detector-source distance was investigated. The energy resolution of a detector system is obtained from the peak full width at one-half of the maximum height (FWHM) of a single peak (for a particular energy) as a function of detector-source distance. It was found that the energy resolution has decreased with the increasing distance.

Keywords

EN

29.40.-n; 29.30.Kv

Discipline

• 29.30.Kv: X- and γ-ray spectroscopy
• 29.40.-n: Radiation detectors(for mass spectrometers, see 07.75.+h; see also 95.55.Vj Neutrino, muon, pion, and other particle detectors; cosmic ray detectors in astronomy)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 128
• Issue: 2B
• Pages: B-422-B-423

Dates

published

2015-8

Contributors

author

İ. Akkurt

• Süleyman Demirel University, Physics Department, Isparta, Turkey

author

S. Arda

• Süleyman Demirel University, Physics Department, Isparta, Turkey

author

K. Gunoglu

• Süleyman Demirel University, Physics Department, Isparta, Turkey

References

• [1] I. Akkurt, H. Akyıldırım, B. Mavi, S. Kılınçarslan, C. Basyigit, Annals of Nucl. Energy 37, 910 (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.anucene.2010.04.001
• [2] I. Akkurt, H. Akyıldırım, Nucl. Eng. Des. 252, 163 (2012), doi: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2012.07.008
• [3] B. Mavi, I. Akkurt, Radiat. Phys. Chem. 79, 933 (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2010.03.019

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.128.B-422