Study on background gamma-ray reduction using a compton backscattering coincidence technique

Takashi Takagi; Kenichi Watanabe; Atsushi Yamazaki; Akira Uritani

doi:10.1109/TNS.2012.2230645

Study on background gamma-ray reduction using a compton backscattering coincidence technique

Takashi Takagi, Kenichi Watanabe, Atsushi Yamazaki, Akira Uritani

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Abstract

We proposed a Compton Backscattering Coincidence (CBC) Technique to reduce background gamma-rays. Properties of the CBC technique were investigated with the EGS5 Monte Carlo simulation code and basic experiments. In this method, a sensitive area can be confined between two detectors while in a conventional method a sensitive area can't be confined because the sensitivity decreases as the solid angle decreases. Two detector configurations using two LaBr ₃ scintillators or HPGe-pure CaF₂ scintillators were tested to validate the feasibility of the proposed technique.

Original language	English
Article number	6412757
Pages (from-to)	550-554
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	60
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2012.2230645
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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