TY  - JOUR
AU  - AGATA Collaboration (Crespi, F. C. L. et al
AU  - Gadea, A.
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Response of AGATA segmented HPGe detectors to gamma rays up to 15.1 MeV
T2  - Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A
JO  - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A
SP  - 47
EP  - 54
VL  - 705
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
KW  - AGATA
KW  - Gamma-ray spectroscopy
KW  - Gamma-ray tracking
KW  - HPGe detectors
KW  - Pulse-shape and gamma-ray tracking algorithms
KW  - Semiconductor detector performance and simulations
AB  - The response of AGATA segmented HPGe detectors to gamma rays in the energy range 2-15 MeV was measured. The 15.1 MeV gamma rays were produced using the reaction d(B-11,n gamma)C-12 at E-beam=19.1 MeV, while gamma rays between 2 and 9 MeV were produced using an Am-Be-Fe radioactive source. The energy resolution and linearity were studied and the energy-to-pulse-height conversion resulted to be linear within 0.05%.Experimental interaction multiplicity distributions are discussed and compared with the results of Geant4 simulations. It is shown that the application of gamma-ray tracking allows a suppression of background radiation caused by n-capture in Ge nuclei. Finally the Doppler correction for the 15.1 MeV gamma line, performed using the position information extracted with Pulse-shape analysis is discussed.
SN  - 0168-9002
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1209.1188
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.084
DO  - 10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.084
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000314826000009
ID  - AGATACollaborationCrespi+Gadea2013
ER  -