Research Article
NaI(Tl) Detector Efficiency Computation Using Radioactive Parallelepiped Sources Based on Efficiency Transfer Principle
Table 5
The point and volume source’s description.
(a) |
| Point source’s description | PTB-Nuclide | Energy (keV) | Emission probability % | Half-life (days) | Activity (kBq) 1 June 2009 | Uncertainty (kBq) |
| 241Am | 59.52 | 35.9 | 157861.05 | 259.0 | ±2.6 |
| 133Ba | 80.99 | 34.1 | 3847.91 | 275.3 | ±2.8 |
| 152Eu | 121.78 | 28.4 |
4943.29 |
290.0 |
±4.0 | 244.69 | 7.49 | 344.28 | 26.6 | 778.90 | 12.96 | 964.13 | 14.0 | 1408.01 | 20.87 |
| 137Cs | 661.66 | 85.21 | 11004.98 | 385.0 | ±4.0 |
| 60Co | 1173.23 | 99.90 |
1925.31 |
212.1 |
±1.5 | 1332.5 | 99.98 |
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(b) |
| Volume source’s description (mm) and activities, 5.05 ± 0.05 kBq | Fisher Scientific Company Polypropylene (PP) Parallelepiped | Cross section dimensions | Radioactive PTB 152Eu solution height | Thickness bottom and side |
| (125 mL) filled with 100 mL | 59.23 × 37.88 | 51.02 | 1.50 | (250 mL) filled with 200 mL | 60.48 × 60.48 | 61.40 | 1.52 |
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