Simulation of background characteristics of low-level gamma-ray spectrometers using Monte Carlo method

R Breier; P P Povinec

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.11.010

Simulation of background characteristics of low-level gamma-ray spectrometers using Monte Carlo method

Appl Radiat Isot. 2010 Jul-Aug;68(7-8):1231-5. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.11.010. Epub 2009 Nov 13.

Authors

R Breier¹, P P Povinec

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

PMID: 19944615
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.11.010

Abstract

A computing code based on the CERN's GEANT4 has been used to compute cosmic-ray background components of low-level Ge-spectrometers, optionally equipped with an anticosmic shield made of a plastic scintillation detector. The results show that the background of the Ge detector placed at 100 m w.e. (water equivalent) has decreased by a factor of 30 and 100 without and with anticosmic shielding, respectively, when compared with a surface laboratory without anticosmic shielding.