ABSTRACT
The performance of a new Compton-suppression spectrometer consisting of one HPGe detector and three NaI(Tl) detectors was studied. The peak-to-Compton ratio for a (137)Cs source is 1150 and the integral background count rate is 0.3 5s(-1) over the energy interval 20-3000 keV. The spectrometer was used to acquire both Compton-suppressed and non-suppressed spectra of aerosol samples collected in Beijing following the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Subject(s)
Air Pollutants, Radioactive/analysis , Fukushima Nuclear Accident , Spectrometry, Gamma/instrumentation , Equipment Design , Equipment Failure Analysis , Japan , Radiation Dosage , Radiometry , Reproducibility of Results , Sensitivity and SpecificityABSTRACT
The compton-suppression Spectrometer can suppress the Compton baseline and make weak full energy peaks prominent in low-level activity gamma spectra, so it is used to measure environmental radioactive samples. In order to quantify the activities of the radionuclides in the sample coincidence-summing corrections should be applied. In this article the expressions of coincidence-summing correction of Compton-Suppression Spectrometer were deduced and the validity of the expressions was verified.
