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Djamal, M. (2016). Preliminary Study of Double Beta Decay: Simulation of CaMoO4 Scintillation Detector Response Function to the Gamma Ray Radiation. KnE Engineering, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.18502/keg.v1i1.479

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  • Sep 5, 2016

Preliminary Study of Double Beta Decay: Simulation of CaMoO4 Scintillation Detector Response Function to the Gamma Ray Radiation

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Abstract

CaMoO4 crystal is a material candidate forthe scintillation detector and double beta decay experiment to determinea neutrino mass. The objective of this work is to analyze the response function of CaMoO4 using Monte Carlo GEANT4 simulation. Penelope-low energy method was used as an interaction type for the electromagnetic process. The simulation results show that the presence of the photopeak energies of gamma ray from Cs-137, Co-60 and K-40 sources can be identified and observed in the energy 0.662 MeV, 1.17 MeV, 1.33 MeV and 1.5 MeV. The photoelectric cross section interaction of CaMoO4 is lower than NaI(Tl), but in other hand the incoherent cross section is vice versa.

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