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Simplified Efficiency Calibration Methods for Semiconductor Detectors used in Criticality Dosimetry

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-06-22 v1 Applied Physics Medical Physics

Abstract

``Oversimplified'' and ``simplified'' methods based on true coincidence summing effect used in uncomplicated determination of the photo-peak efficiency of the semiconductor High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector system are suggested and verified. The methods and calibrated 60^{60}Co radioactive source may be used to commission any HPGe detector to use during potential criticality event. The determined accuracy of the semiconductor HPGe detector system using this method is a few percent (for the detector system used in this study it was \simeq8\% for oversimplified and \simeq5\% for simplified methods accordingly) reasonable, expected, and good enough to use for estimation of neutron dose from irradiated human blood in a potential criticality event. Moreover, if one can experimentally deduce the photo-peak efficiency for 60^{60}Co 1333 keV γ\gamma-ray line using the suggested methods, then with a few percent accuracy this efficiency could be also used for 1369 keV γ\gamma-ray line in the decay of 24^{24}Na isotope.

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@article{arxiv.2206.09749,
  title  = {Simplified Efficiency Calibration Methods for Semiconductor Detectors used in Criticality Dosimetry},
  author = {Victor V. Golovko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.09749},
  year   = {2022}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Applied Radiation and Isotopes journal

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