BARC/PUB/2014/0860

 
 

Measurement of β-decay end point energy with planar HPGe detector

 
     
 
Author(s)

Bhattacharjee, T.; Pandit, D.; Das, S. K.; Chowdhury, A.; Das, P.; Banerjee, D.; Saha, A.; Mukhopadhyay, S.; Pal S.; Banerjee, S. R.
(RCD)

Source

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research-A, 2014. Vol. 767: pp. 19-25

ABSTRACT

The β-γ coincidence measurement has been performed with a segmented planar Hyper-Pure Germanium (HPGe) detector and a single coaxial HPGe detector to determine the end point energies of nuclear β-decays.The experimental end point energies have been determined for some of the known β-decays in 106Rh→106Pd.The end point energies corresponding to three weak branches in 106Rh→106Pd decay have been measured for the first time.The γ ray and β particle responses for the planar HPGe detector were simulated using the Monte Carlo based code GEANT3.The experimentally obtained β spectra were successfully reproduced with the simulation.

 
 
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