A simple technique for gamma ray and cosmic ray spectroscopy using plastic scintillator

2014/07/27 by Akhilesh P. Nandan, Nandan, Akhilesh P., Sharmili Rudra +11
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.7181

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Abstract

A new and simple technique has been developed using plastic scintillator detectors for gamma ray and cosmic ray spectroscopy without single channel analyzer (SCA) or multichannel analyzer (MCA). In these experiments only a leading edge discriminator (LED) and NIM scalers have been used. Energy calibration of gamma spectra in plastic scintillators has been done using Co⁶⁰ and Cs¹³⁷ sources. The details experimental technique, analysis procedure and experimental results has been presented in this article.

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