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Development of a simple laboratory-made radioactive source to check the integrity of a gamma spectrometry system with HPGe detector

HPGe 검출기를 사용한 감마분광분석계의 점검선원 개발

  • Received : 2013.05.21
  • Accepted : 2013.06.10
  • Published : 2013.06.30

Abstract

A simple laboratory-made radioactive source to check the integrity of a gamma spectrometry system with HPGe detector was developed. The check source consists of radium-riched soil which was ground in size of less than 0.154mm and contained in air tight cylinderical vial, and provides photons with 12 distinct energies. The spectra of the check source were measured once a month during one year, analyzed the charactreictics of their peaks. When the gamma spectrometry system was in normal state, the areas and FWHMs of the gamma rays with more than 3% gamma emission rate in radium and its decay products was constant within standard deviation 2% and 3%, respectively, except 77 keV peak. And it was found that this check source can play a sufficient role to check the integrity of a gamma spectrometry system using 10 peaks in the range of 77 to 2202 keV.

HPGe 검출기를 사용하는 감마 분광분석계의 건전성을 점검하기 위한 실험실 선원이 개발되었다. 점검 선원은 0.154 mm 이하의 라듐이 풍부한 토양을 밀봉된 원통형 시료 용기에 담은 것으로, 검출기 교정에 사용할 12 개의 감마선이 방출된다. 점검 선원의 스펙트럼은 1년 동안 1개월 간격으로 측정하였으며, 스펙트럼에 나타난 감마선 피크들의 특성을 조사하였다. 감마 분광분석계가 정상일 때 라듐과 그 붕괴 생성물에서 3% 이상 방출률을 갖는 감마선들의 피크면적과 반치폭은 77 keV 피크를 제외하고는 각각 표준편차 2%와 3% 이내에서 일정하였다. 따라서 점검 선원은 77 keV부터 2202 keV까지 영역에 있는 10개의 피크를 사용하여 분광분석계의 건전성을 점검하는데 충분한 것으로 판단되었다.

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