This pathway describes the development of soft gamma-ray/hard x-ray detector arrays at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC, or Goddard), through a collaboration between the gamma-ray spectroscopy group and the detector branch. The Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CdZnTe, or CZT) detectors which resulted from this decade-long development were first flown on the wildly successful SWIFT mission in 200...

The subject of ttis chapter is the function and operation of the components of a gamma-ray spectroscopy system. In Chapter 3 it was shown that the output pulse amplitude from most gamma-ray detectors is proportional to the energy deposited by the gamma ray. The pulse-height spectrum from such a detector contains a series of full-energy peaks superimposed on a continuous Compton background. Alth...

• GEM10P4/CFG-PV4/DWR-30 Coaxial Detector System (Includes detector, cryostat, dewar, preamplifier, and 12-ft. cable pack); typical specifications: 10% relative efficiency, 1.75 keV resolution at 1.332 MeV, 41:1 peak-to-Compton ratio. • 659 0–5 keV Detector Bias Supply • 672 Spectroscopy Amplifier • 480 Pulser • C-24-12 Cables (2 ea.) • C-24-1 Cable • C-29 BNC Tee Connector • 4001A/4002D NIM Bi...

The performance characteristics of the digital pulse processor (DPP) as a low power for gamma-ray semiconductor detector were analyzed. FWHM energy resolution germanium was obtained 0.35 and is in proper range published value. peaking time 0.8 to be 1.16 respectively. A good residual at various peaks. This lie between -2.3 KeV 1.3KeV.The optimum 6 μs where goes through minimum value from plot a...