First tests of the active shield for a gamma ray spectrometer |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 4, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro |
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Abstract: | The operational problems of the gamma ray spectrometer shielded passively with 12 cm of lead and actively by five plastic veto shields are described. The active shielding effect from environmental gamma ray, cosmic muons, and neutrons was investigated. Wide range of scintillator pulses, corresponding to the energy range of 150 keV–75 MeV, was used for anticoincidence gating. With the optimal set up, the integral background of 0.31 c/s was achieved for the energy region of 50–3000 keV. The detector mass-related background was 0.345 c/kg s. The 511 keV annihilation line was reduced by factor of 7 by the anticoincidence gate. It is shown that the plastic shields increase the neutron capture gamma line intensities due to neutron termalization. |
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