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Simulations of background characteristics of HPGe detectors operating in shallow underground using the Monte Carlo method

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Monte Carlo codes GEANT 4 and MUSIC have been used to calculate background components of low-level HPGe gamma-ray spectrometers operating in a shallow underground laboratory. The simulated background gamma-ray spectra have been comparable with spectra measured at the Ogoya underground laboratory operating at the depth of 270 m w.e. (water equivalent). The Monte Carlo simulations have proved to be useful approach in estimation of background characteristics of HPGe spectrometers before their construction.

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A support provided by the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA (project No. 1/0783/14), and by the EU Research and Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (Project # 26240220004) is highly acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 84248, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Robert Breier & Pavel P. Povinec

  2. Low-level Radioactivity Laboratory, University of Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan

    Yasunori Hamajima

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Breier, R., Hamajima, Y. & Povinec, P.P. Simulations of background characteristics of HPGe detectors operating in shallow underground using the Monte Carlo method. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 307, 1957–1960 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4460-3

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