Automated construction of detector models for efficiency interpolation in gamma-ray spectrometry.
A method was developed for automated construction of detector models in gamma-ray spectrometry, which can be used in Monte Carlo calculations of efficiency calibration curves. Full-energy peak efficiencies were first measured for different gamma-ray energies and for a given sample-detector arrangement and then calculated by the Monte Carlo method. For these calculations a detector model was employed along with a computer algorithm, which seeks agreement between the experimental efficiencies and the calculated ones by automatically determining the parameters of the model. The resulting agreement of the calculated data with the experimental one was within the relative uncertainty of the latter (3-4%) and the parameters of the detector models obtained were close to the values specified by the manufacturers. The detector models thus constructed can then be used for interpolation of calibration curves.
Efficiency transfer in the calibration of a coaxial p-type HpGe detector using the Monte Carlo method.
Monte Carlo simulation was applied to the efficiency transfer exercise described in the EUROMET428 project (Appl. Radiat. Isot. 55 (2001) 493), evaluating the peak efficiencies in the energy range 60-2000 keV for a typical coaxial p-type HpGe detector and several types of source configuration: point sources located at various distances from the detector and a cylindrical box containing three matrices. The efficiency values were derived in two ways: (a) by direct calculation taking into account the physical dimensions of the detector provided by the supplier, and (b) by means of relative computation (efficiency transfer) taking also into consideration the known efficiency values for a reference point source. As expected, some significant discrepancies between the calculated and experimental values were found when a direct computation was made using the data provided by the supplier. On the contrary, the results for the peak efficiency derived by relative calculation by means of an efficiency transfer were in good agreement with the experimental values. The deviations found with this last procedure were generally below 5% for all the geometries considered, which is entirely satisfactory for the purposes of routine measurements.
Parameters for low energy operation of CESR
We present a detailed design for operation of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, CESR, in the energy range covering the /spl psi/ resonances and the Charm and Tau thresholds, as well as reaching to the upper Y resonances near 11 GeV. The addition of 18 m of super-ferric wiggler magnets will partially restore low energy beam emittance and damping times. Installation of superconducting quadrupoles in the interaction region and the addition of high performance superconducting RF cavities will enhance performance at all energies. Studies of optics, beam dynamics, wiggler and vacuum system performance, beam stability, and beam-beam effects confirm operation with a luminosity of 3/spl times/ 10/sup 32/ CM/sup -2/ sec/sup -1/ at 1.88 GeV.