Full-Energy Peak Efficiency Calibration of a Metallic Magnetic Calorimeter Detector for Photon Spectrometry Below 100 keV

Riham Mariam (1) , Matias Rodrigues (1) , Martin Loidl (1)

1 LNHB - Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel

Knowledge of absolute emission intensities of X-ray lines below 100 keV is limited or missing. An absolute determination of these intensities necessitates a high-resolution spectrometer with an accurate efficiency calibration. In this work, we will show and discuss the FEP efficiency calibration of a MMC detector combining a measurement of a standard source with Monte Carlo simulations using the code PENELOPE-2014. The simulated efficiency detection successfully interpolated the experimental efficiency values.

Keywords: Metallic magnetic calorimeter; X-ray and gamma spectroscopy; FEP detection efficiency

Domains: Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Modeling and Simulation; Applications [stat.AP]

Riham Mariam, Matias Rodrigues, Martin Loidl. Full-Energy Peak Efficiency Calibration of a Metallic Magnetic Calorimeter Detector for Photon Spectrometry Below 100 keV. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2018, 193 (5-6), pp.1269-1275. ⟨10.1007/s10909-018-2001-5⟩. ⟨cea-01917347⟩