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Experimental investigation of saturation depth of 0.662 MeV gamma rays in copper

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Title Experimental investigation of saturation depth of 0.662 MeV gamma rays in copper
 
Creator Singh, Gurvinderjit
Singh, Manpreet
Sandhu, B S
Singh, Bhajan
 
Subject Compton scattered events
Saturation thickness
Signal-to-noise ratio
 
Description 111-115
The effect of target thickness on 0.662 MeV multiply Compton scattered gamma photon has been studied experimentally. An intense collimated beam, obtained from 6-Ci¹³⁷Cs source, is allowed to impinge on a rectangular copper target of varying thickness and the scattered photons are detected by a properly shielded NaI(Tl) scintillation detector, having dimensions 51φ mm51 mm, placed at 90º to the incident beam. The subtraction of events under the analytically reconstructed full energy peak from the events recorded under the observed inelastic peak results in multiply scattered events having energy same as in single scattering. The target thickness at which the number of multiply scattered events saturates has also been determined. The signal-to-noise ratio is found to be decreasing with increasing target thickness. Monte Carlo calculation supports the present experimental results.
 
Date 2008-10-24T09:41:36Z
2008-10-24T09:41:36Z
2007-02
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0019-5596
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2292
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G01T
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source IJPAP Vol.45(2) [February 2007]