This is a study camed out for analyzing the energy spectrum of the y-rays emitted from the sources in the air and water using NaI(Tl) scintillation detector. The main purpose of the study is to apply the theoretical response functions, that are constr...
This is a study camed out for analyzing the energy spectrum of the y-rays emitted from the sources in the air and water using NaI(Tl) scintillation detector. The main purpose of the study is to apply the theoretical response functions, that are constructed by simplifying the response functions proposed for high-purity germanium detector, to generating the r-ray energy spectrum of the scintillation detector. Experiments have been carried out to determine the empirical parameters constituting the response functions as function of r-ray energy. For the r-ray sources, Cr-51. Cs-137, Mn-54, Zn-65. and Na-22 are used in this experiment. The empirical parameters of the response functions determined for the 7-ray sources both in the air and water are compared and analyzed. It is concluded that the functional form of the parameters of the response functions and the method used in this study to determine the empirical parameters can be effectively applied to predicting the energy spectrums of various y-ray sources.