Precise Monte Carlo simulation of gamma-ray response functions for an NaI(Tl) detector

Hu Xia Shi; Bo Xian Chen; Ti Zhu Li; Di Yun

doi:10.1016/S0969-8043(02)00140-9

Precise Monte Carlo simulation of gamma-ray response functions for an NaI(Tl) detector

Hu Xia Shi
, Bo Xian Chen
, Ti Zhu Li
, Di Yun

Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Three widely used methods to calculate the response functions for NaI(Tl) detectors were investigated. The methods were Berger-Seltzer's method (Nucl. Instrum. Methods 104 (1972) 317), general Monte Carlo (MC) programs, such as EGS4 (The EGS4 code system, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1985) and MCNP4B (MCNP - a general Monte Carlo N-particle transport code, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report, LA-12625-M, 1997), and special MC programs. The pulse height spectra in a 3″×3″ NaI(Tl) detector due to several gamma-ray sources have been measured to verify the calculated results of these methods. The energies of the sources ranged from 0.4118 to 7.11 MeV. The spectra generated by Berger-Seltzer's method and the general MC programs did not agree well with the experimental data. PETRANS 1.0, the special MC program developed in house, was fairly accurate since it also considered the scintillation efficiency and the single escape peak shift.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	517-524
Number of pages	8
Journal	Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Volume	57
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-8043(02)00140-9
State	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Monte Carlo simulation
NaI(Tl) detector
Precise response function
Scintillation efficiency
Single escape peak shift

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