An approach to evaluate the efficiency of gamma-ray detectors to determine the radioactivity in environmental samples

作者：Badawi Mohamed S^*; El Khatib Ahmed M; Diab Samah M; Nafee Sherif S; El Mallah Ekram A

来源：Chinese Physics C, 2014, 38(6): 066203.

DOI：10.1088/1674-1137/38/6/066203

• gamma-ray detector efficiency
• efficiency transfer
• effective solid angles
• radioactive source

This work provides an approach to determine the efficiency of gamma-ray detectors with a good accuracy in order to determine the concentrations of either naturally occurring or artificially prepared radionuclides. This approach is based on the efficiency transfer formula (ET), the effective solid angles, the self- absorptions of the source matrix, the attenuation by the source container and the detector housing materials on the detector efficiency. The experimental calibration process was done using radioactive (Cylindrical %26 Marinelli) sources, in different dimensions, that contain aqueous Eu-152 radionuclide. The comparison point to a fine agreement between the experimental measured and calculated efficiencies for the (NaI %26 HPGe) detectors using volumetric radioactive sources.

• 出版日期2014-6