Fabrication of Lithium Ion Drifted Germanium Detectors and Their Application in the Gamma Ray Spectrometry of Nuclear Reactions

Download or read book Fabrication of Lithium Ion Drifted Germanium Detectors and Their Application in the Gamma Ray Spectrometry of Nuclear Reactions written by Bijan Miremadi-K and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis the method of fabrication of lithiumion-drifted detectors and their application to gamma-ray spectrometry of Si^°(d*n7)P^1 and Be^(a*ny)C12 reactions are described. 3 The planar-type detectors up to 5 cm sensitive 3 volume and a coaxial type detector of 10 cm sensitive volume have been fabricated. But due to the high leakage current caused by surface contamination* only a few planar-type detectors have been successfully tested. The intrinsic resolution of these detectors for 66l KeV gamma-ray of Cs1^ vary between 3.4 KeV to l6.7 KeV. The energy resolution of the best detector obtained was 3.4 KeV and 7*7 KeV for gamma-rays of energies 0.122 and 2.62 MeV respectively. This detector exhibited an absolute efficiency of 70$ for 122 KeV* decreasing to 0.8$ near the 2 MeV region. 3 A detector with sensitive volume of 3 cm has been 30 31 used to study the gamma-rays produced in the S1J (d*ny)P^ reaction with the hope of determining the branching ratios of 31 PJ gamma-ray transitions. But the low efficiency of the detector above 4 MeV did not allow such measurements to be made. In 12 addition* the 4.43 MeV gamma-ray for C produced by the Q 12 Be^(a*n7)C reaction was studied. This gamma-ray exhibited a Doppler shift and broadening which is discussed as a means of obtaining the lifetimes of nuclear excited states.