The continuous detection of gamma (X-ray) spectra registered during atmospheric precipitations

Monitoring of a gamma radiation in a ground atmosphere layer has revealed systematic increases during precipitations (rains, snowfalls). We have designed the instrument for the continuous detecting of differential spectra of a gamma radiation on the basis of spectrometers with sizes of scintillation crystals (Ø62×20 mm) and (Ø150× 100 mm). Registration of spectra of a gamma radiation is made with high resolution by means of the 4096-channel pulse-height analyzer over the energy range from 200 keV up to 4 MeV. Responses of crystals (effectiveness of detecting) to entering radiation have been calculated with the help of GEANT4 package. Instruments posed on the continuous registration of differential spectra of a gamma-ray background. In the present paper the preliminary results of observations carried out by the new instrument are presented. Measuring of spectra during increases of the gamma (X-rays) happening during precipitations, has shown absence in the spectra the characteristic lines of any radio nuclides in all the effective range. Spectra of a X-ray radiation over the range 20-400 keV, obtained earlier on the basis of crystal Ø63×20 mm, are well compounded with the data obtained with the crystal Ø150×100 mm and simulations by GEANT4 package. Joining of two detectors gives a possibility to study spectra of a gamma (X – ray) background and their variations from 20 keV up to 4 MeV.