66Ga como padrão de calibração de raios de altas energias para detectores HPGe / Ga66 as a standard for high energy gamma rays
AUTOR(ES)
André da Silva Serra
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
This work involves the study of the peak efficiency and response function of HPGe detectors for gamma rays in the energy range of 2 to 5 MeV, somewhat above the energy range of the available calibration sources for gamma spectroscopy. It is part of a high energy (up to 20MeV) -ray project to obtain intensity of rays from photo nuclear reactions produced with the bremstrahlung from the 38MeV electron beam of the Microtron accelerator. Former works carried out in the Laborat´orio do Acelerador Linear - LAL (IFUSP) used gamma rays produced by well-known (p,x ) resonant reactions. However reaction kinematics disturbs the position and form of the observed gamma peaks mainly due to the Doppler effect. In order to avoid these problems, a radioactive source with high energy gamma-rays, 66Ga (which recently became one of the secondary efficiency calibration standard), was used. The 66Ga source was produced by bombarding a 1.0 mm foil of pure natZn (>99,99%) with the 15MeV and 0.1A proton beam from the Cyclone 30 cyclotron of the Instituto de Pesquisas Energ´eticas e Nucleares - IPEN with 66Zn(p,n) and 67Zn(p,2n) nuclear reactions. The resultant spectra were analyzed using the IDFIX program and the peak efficiency calibration curve was obtained for the HPGe detector with 162cm3 of active volume and a efficiency of 33% relative to a 3×3Na(Tl) crystal for 1332 keV 60Co ray. Finally, it was undertaken a Monte Carlo radiation transport analysis using a software such as MNCP5. The experiment was simulated and the results are in agreement with the experimental ones.
ASSUNTO(S)
ga66 detectors high energy calibração calibration gamma rays raios gamas detectores
