Published February 15, 2006
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The Performance of a CsI-BGO Based Anti compton Spectrometer
Creators
- 1. Nuclear Research Center- Negev, Beer Sheva (Israel)
Description
In the search for mobile systems for remote sensing of gamma radiation with improved sensitivity to low intensity radioactive sources in the background, we developed a Compton suppressed scintillation detector based on a CsI(Tl) main spectrometer surrounded by a BGO cylinder. The performance of the system was evaluated by measuring the spectra of several radioactive sources and natural background, with the Anti Compton condition on and off . The performance of the system was compared to that of the NANOSPEC 2''*2'' CsI(Tl) spectrometer by TARGET. The performance of the CsI-BGO system was found to be better then that of NANOSPEC by nearly a factor of 2. Theoretical simulations indicate that a further 30% improvement is achievable
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- The 23. conference of the Nuclear Societies in Israel. Book of articles
- Imprint Pagination
- 256 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 162-164
- Report number
- INIS-IL--012
Conference
- Title
- 23. conference of the Nuclear Societies in Israel
- Dates
- 15-16 Feb 2006
- Place
- Dead Sea (Israel)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Israel
- Country of Input or Organization
- Israel
- INIS RN
- 38093063
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BGO DETECTORS; CESIUM 137; CESIUM IODIDES; COBALT 60; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPTON DIODE DETECTORS; COMPTON SPECTROMETERS; CRYSTAL COUNTERS; CRYSTALS; REMOTE SENSING; SELF-POWERED GAMMA DETECTORS; SPECTRA UNFOLDING; THALLIUM ADDITIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; ALLOYS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; DATA PROCESSING; EVALUATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC PHOSPHORS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; IODIDES; IODINE COMPOUNDS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PHOSPHORS; PROCESSING; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SELF-POWERED DETECTORS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SPECTROMETERS; THALLIUM ALLOYS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES