PT Journal
AU Korichi, A
   Lauritsen, T
   Wilson, AN
   Dudouet, J
   Clement, E
   Lalovic, N
   Perez-Vidal, RM
   Pietri, S
   Ralet, D
   Stezowski, O
TI Performance of a gamma-ray tracking array: Characterizing the AGATA array using a Co-60 source
SO Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A
JI Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A
PY 2017
BP 80
EP 86
VL 872
DI 10.1016/j.nima.2017.08.020
LA English
DE Segmented germanium detectors; Efficiency measurements; gamma-ray tracking; AGATA; gamma-ray spectroscopy; Nuclear structure
AB The AGATA (Advanced GAmma Tracking Array) tracking detector is being designed to far surpass the performance of the previous generation, Compton-suppressed arrays. In this paper, a characterization of AGATA is provided based on data from the second GSI campaign. Emphasis is placed on the proper corrections required to extract the absolute photopeak efficiency and peak-to-total ratio. The performance after tracking is extracted and GEANT4 simulations are used both to understand the results and to scale the measurements up to predicted values for the full 4 pi implementation of the device.
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