An empirical function for the full energy peak efficiency for a P-type Co-axial high purity germanium detector

Abstract

An empirical analytical function has been obtained for the full energy peak efficiency of a co-axial P-type High Purity Germanium Detector for gamma-ray energies in the range of 80 - 1333 keV and source-to-detector distance in the range of 1.0 - 4.0 cm. Comparison of the calculated efficiencies with the corresponding experimental value agrees very well within standard deviations of 1.8 - 3.7 %.

JOURNAL OF THE GHANA SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Volume 2 No. 1 (2000) pp. 64-70