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基于物理的HPGe伽马探测器绝对效率测定

Physically-based HPGe gamma detector absolute efficiency determination
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/ipssc2017_gacnik_gamma_detector/  
主讲教师: Lojze Gačnik
开课单位: 约瑟夫·斯特凡研究所
开课时间: 2017-05-23
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
k0仪器中子活化分析(k0 INAA)需要高纯度锗(HPGe)伽马探测器,其绝对全能量峰值效率(FEPE)已知的能量范围尽可能大。测定FEPE的标准程序是使用具有已知绝对活度的参考点伽马源,其在几个离散能量下产生FEPE。然后,将多项式拟合到效率数据的不同能量区域,并注意最小化区域边界处多项式的不连续性。由于多项式及其能量区域的数量和阶数的选择,这是一种主观近似,在数据点较少的区域不准确,尤其是在最小和最大校准能量之间的区域之外。 我们通过使用Geant4模拟工具包模拟简化的HPGe探测器和伽马源来改进这一点。它对粒子通过物质的过程进行了完整的物理蒙特卡罗模拟,得到了模拟的能量效率函数。此函数具有所需的一般形状,但由于用于模拟的几何和物理模型的简化,因此不准确。我们通过将模拟效率曲线拟合到实验数据来纠正这一点,类似于我们在标准校准程序中拟合多项式的方式,但自由度较少。这提供了一个比简单多项式拟合更准确、更少主观的效率模型。因为我们使用了一个合理准确的物理模型进行预测,所以我们也对极值校准能量之外的确定效率有更大的信心。 因此,我们的方法扩展了HPGe校准的能量范围,并在使用的校准源数量和所测定FEPE的准确性之间实现了更好的权衡。后者尤其适用于几乎没有或几乎没有此类能源的能源地区。
课程简介: k0 instrumental neutron activation analysis (k0-INAA) requires high-purity Germanium (HPGe) gamma detectors, with their absolute full-energy peak efficiency (FEPE) known for as large an energy range as possible. The standard procedure for determining the FEPE is by using reference point gamma sources with known absolute activities, which yield the FEPE at a few discrete energies. Afterwards, polynomials are fitted to different energy regions of the efficiency data, with care taken to minimize the polynomial’s discontinuities at region boundaries. Due to the choice in number and degree of polynomials and their energy regions, this is a subjective approximation, inaccurate in regions where few data points are available, especially outside the region between the smallest and largest calibration energy. We improve this by simulating a simplified HPGe detector and gamma source, using the Geant4 simulation toolkit. It performs a full physical Monte-Carlo simulation of the passage of particles through matter, yielding a simulated energy-efficiency function. This function has the desired general shape, but is inaccurate due to simplifications in the geometrical and physical models used for the simulation. We correct this by fitting the simulated efficiency curve to experimental data, analogously to how we fitted polynomials in the standard calibration procedure, but with fewer degrees of freedom. This gives a more accurate and less subjective model of efficiency than possible from a simple polynomial fit. Because we use a reasonably accurate physical model for the prediction, we also have greater confidence in the determined efficiency outside the extremal calibration energies. Our method thus extends the energy range of HPGe calibration, and enables a better trade-off between the number of calibration sources used, and the accuracy of the determined FEPE. The latter is particularly useful for energy regions where few or no such sources are even available.
关 键 词: 活化分析; 伽马探测器; 绝对全能量峰值效率
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