Total-to-peak ratios of high purity germanium gamma ray detector
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Author(s)
Nelson, Justin Matthew, 1981-
Advisor(s)
Richard Milner.
Date Issued
2004
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This study is concerned with the percentage of [gamma]-rays of a certain energy having their energy correctly measured by a high purity Germanium [gamma]-ray detector. The ratio between the total counts and the counts within the energy peak (total-to-peak ratio) is determined for seven energies ranging from 89 keV to 1275 keV. A Monte Carlo based on the physical parameters of the detector was used to extrapolate between these points and after an energy independent scaling factor fit the data with a reduced [chi]² slightly below 1. The same experiment was repeated with a lead brick and then a β detector near the Ge detector and these objects were found to not have an effect on the total-to-peak ratios within the precision of the experiment.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics; and, (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2004.
MIT Institute Archives copy: leaves 2-22 bound in reverse order.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 22).
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Physics.
Mathematics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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