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Measurement of $\beta$-decay end point energy with Planar HPGe detector

Nuclear Experiment 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

The end point energies of nuclear β\beta decays have been measured with a segmented planar Ge LEPS detector using both singles and coincidence techniques. The βγ\beta - \gamma coincidence has been performed with a segmented planar Ge LEPS and a single 10%\% HPGe detector. The γ\gamma ray and β\beta particle responses of the Segmented planer Ge LEPS detector were studied using monte carlo simulation code GEANT3. The experimentally obtained β\beta spectrum was in reasonably good agreement with the simulation results. The experimental end point energies are determined with substantial accuracy for some of the known β\beta decays in 106^{106}Rh, 210^{210}Bi and 90^{90}Y. The end point energies corresponding to three weak branches in 106^{106}Rh \rightarrow 106^{106}Pd decay has been measured for the first time.

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@article{arxiv.1404.4158,
  title  = {Measurement of $\beta$-decay end point energy with Planar HPGe detector},
  author = {T. Bhattacharjee and Deepak Pandit and S. K. Das and A. Chowdhury and P. Das and D. Banerjee and A. Saha and S. Mukhopadhyay and S. Pal and S. R. Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4158},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 8 figures and 1 table