A generic isotope identification approach for nuclear instrumentation

Gwenolé Corre (1) , Karim Boudergui (1) , Guillaume Sannié (1) , Vladimir Kondrasovs (1)

1 LCAE - Laboratoire Capteurs et Architectures Electroniques

Isotope identification is generally done from spectra from high intrinsic resolution such as germanium. A lot of approaches are proposed in the literature. Most of them are not efficient with poor energy resolution detectors such as non-loaded scintillators. The proposed approach is a new isotope identification principle to deal with the overall range of nuclear detectors. The proposed method allows the identification of isotopes using detectors with poor intrinsic resolution and lower counting than the existing techniques.

Keywords: scintillation counters; generic isotope identification approach; Nuclear electronics; Deconvolution; instrumentation; nuclear instrumentation; nonloaded scintillators; poor energy resolution detectors; high intrinsic resolution; isotope identification principle; germanium radiation detectors; Spectroscopy; System identification; Energy resolution; Gamma-rays; Nuclear measurements; nuclear detectors; plastic scintillator; ionizing radiation; radioactivity

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Physics [physics]; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]

Gwenolé Corre, Karim Boudergui, Guillaume Sannié, Vladimir Kondrasovs. A generic isotope identification approach for nuclear instrumentation. ANIMMA 2015 - 4th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications, Apr 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465628⟩. ⟨cea-01823365⟩