below and are based on some basic concepts about how the detection process works, how gamma rays penetrate materials, and the principles of gamma-ray spectroscopy. Unresolved choice issues can be reduced to a level where they have little or no impact on the resultant performance of the spectrometry system. This document explains how you can easily make a wise, well-informed choice. We assume yo...

The Spectral Deconvolution Analysis Tool (SDAT) is being written to improve counting statistics and detection limits for nuclear explosion radionuclide measurements. SDAT will utilize spectral deconvolution spectroscopy techniques to analyze both β−γ coincidence spectra for radioxenon isotopes and high-resolution High Purity Germanium (HPGe) spectra that are utilized for aerosol monitoring. Spe...

The portable high-resolution spectroscopy system includes an HPGe detector and an ORTEC digiDART (Figure 2). The HPGe detector includes a 3-, 5-, or 7-liter multi-attitude Dewar that allows the detector to be positioned in many directions without a significant loss of liquid nitrogen. The digiDART provides the battery-operated digital spectroscopy system which (1) applies high voltage to the de...

The study aims at measuring the gamma activity concentration (Ra, Th and K) of sub-slab filling gravel of Finnish houses. This study forms a part of a wider study aiming at exploring factors affecting high indoor radon concentrations in Finnish dwellings. The gamma activity and radon emanation were measured from gravel samples sent from 229 Finnish municipalities, the gamma activity was reporte...

One of the goals of hypernuclear physics is to study the properties of baryon-baryon interaction including the strangeness contribution. Double hypernuclei can provide information about the ΛΛ interaction in addition to the hyperon-hyperon and hyperon-nucleus one. A new technique for producing double hypernuclei using antiprotons is foreseen in the PANDA experiment at FAIR. Gamma ray spectrosco...

Because of the major impact of the radioactive materials on the environment, their characterization methods have to be well defined, complete and agreed by the control bodies and the civil society. The paper presents measurements of certified etalon gamma emitting radiation sources, in order to perform the energy and the efficiency calibration of a new HPGe spectrometric system, and to determin...

With the goal of measuring precise gamma-ray intensities for short-lived (< 5 s) accelerator-produced activities, we have calibrated the efficiency of an HPGe detector between 53 and 1836keV to sub-percent precision with a combination of source measurements and Monte Carlo calculations. Using known or independently measured detector dimensions, we have achieved both relative and absolute agreem...