2 MeV full scale range
<80keV FWHM @ 1332KeV centroid from 60Co
1024 bin MCA integrated. Fully USB powered unit
16 million counts per channel.
Monitoring output for shaping amplifier.
Fully featured Python software supplied open-source.
Capable of coincidence measurements using our dual parameter MCA
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Indigenously developed gamma spectrometer |
Proceedings of the DAE Symp. on Nucl. Phys. 63 (2018) 1072 | Jithin B.P. and O.S.K.S. Sastri |
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Novel coincidence setup using indigenously developed portable USB gamma spectrometer and associated analysis software |
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | Jithin B.P. and O.S.K.S. Sastri |
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Gated MCA technique for demonstration of coincidence phenomena with a set of indigenously developed gamma spectrometers |
Recent Issues in Nuclear and Particle Physics (RINP2) | Jithin B.P. and O.S.K.S. Sastri |
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Compact dual-parameter MCA for γ−γ Coincidence Measurements |
Proceedings of the DAE Symp. on Nucl. Phys. 64 (2019) | Jithin B.P. and O.S.K.S. Sastri |
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Background Gamma Radiation Surveying in the Indian Peninsula with a Portable USB Spectrometer |
Proceedings of the DAE Symp. on Nucl. Phys. 64 (2019) | Jithin B.P. and O.S.K.S. Sastri |
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Gamma Spectra of Non-Enriched Thorium Sources using PIN Photodiode and PMT based Detectors |
Physics Education-IAPT Volume 38: No 1. Jan-Mar 2020 | Jithin B.P. , Swapna Gora |
Cobalt-60 forms 2 photopeaks due to the gamma rays emitted with energies around 1173 and 1332 keV. This makes it ideal for a 2 point calibration. The calibrated instrument can then be used with other sources such as 137-Caesium, 22-Na, 57-Co etc which are part of the standard enriched source kit available from BRITS
The calibrated instrument can be used to acquire spectra from unknown sources, and the gaussian fitting utility be used for locating centroids of identified photopeaks. In this image, Cs-137 has been identified since its known photopeak energy is 662 keV.
Open-source software, CNSpec, is supplied with the instrument.
The MCA is designed to emit a programmable width digital pulse per event, and also accept digital input pulses which will then act as secondary discriminators for recording events. Demonstrable coincidence results can be obtained using just a cable connected from one spectrometer to the other.
