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GEANT4 models of HPGe detectors for radioassay

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-04-30 v2

Abstract

Radiation transport models of two high purity germanium detectors, GeII and GeIII, located at the University of Alabama have been created in GEANT4 \cite{geant4}. These detectors have been used extensively for radioassay measurements of materials used in various low background experiments. The two models have been validated against actual data under several scenarios typically seen in radioassay measurements. The systematic uncertainties of the models for GeII and GeIII are estimated to be \sim12\% and \sim9\% respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06847,
  title  = {GEANT4 models of HPGe detectors for radioassay},
  author = {R. H. M. Tsang and A. Piepke and D. J. Auty and B. Cleveland and S. Delaquis and T. Didberidze and R. MacLellan and Y. Meng and O. Nusair and T. Tolba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06847},
  year   = {2019}
}

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