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  • A phoswich detector with Compton suppression capability has been developed and tested for measuring xenon radioisotopes via a beta-gamma coincidence measurement technique. The phoswich detector has been designed with three scintillation layers. Beta-gamma coincidence events from radioxenon isotopes are identified when a coincidence energy absorption is detected in the first (BC-400) and second (CsI(Tl) crystal) scintillation layers. To identify and reject scattered photons from the CsI(Tl) crystal, the crystal is surrounded by a BGO scintillation layer. Our measurements show that the Compton suppression mechanism reduces the Compton continuum from 662 keV photons by 20%-50% in the low-energy region of spectrum. Our beta-gamma coincidence measurements with ¹³⁵Xe and ¹³³Xe radioisotopes show energy resolutions (FWHM) of 13%, 46% and 24% for 250 keV, 30keV and 80 keV gamma-ray peaks, respectively. In this paper, the detector design, assembly steps, digital pulse shape discrimination technique, and our recent measurements with radioactive lab sources and xenon radioisotopes are discussed.
  • This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and can be found at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=23. (c) 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.
  • Keywords: Pulse shape discrimination, Phoswich detector, Compton suppression, Radioxenon measurement
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  • Farsoni, A.T.; Alemayehu, B.; Alhawsawi, A.; Becker, E.M., "A Phoswich Detector With Compton Suppression Capability for Radioxenon Measurements," Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on , vol.60, no.1, pp.456,464, Feb. 2013 doi: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2226606
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  • This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract No. DE-AC52-09NA29324.
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