objective(s): the energy resolution of a cadmium-zinc-telluride (czt) solid-state semiconductor detector is about 5%, and is superior to the resolution of the conventional anger type detector which is 10%. also, the window width of the high-energy part and of the low-energy part of a photo peak window can be changed separately. in this study, we used a semiconductor detector and examined the ef...

XRD patterns of NIST standard reference materials were collected using a gas proportional detector and a linear Position Sensitive Detector (PSD). Incident beam optics used for data collection consisted of a polycapillary X-ray lens, a graded multilayer parabolic X-ray mirror, and programmable divergence slits. Peak position, width, and intensity were studied with respect to the different exper...

An efficient, stable and reliable system to detect the unknown phase of the input sinusoidal signal is presented. The proposed design is a feedback loop consists of subtractor, peak detector and direct digital synthesizer (DDS). DDS generates a sinusoidal signal with the same frequency of input signal and with initial zero phase. An error signal is the output of subtracor after subtracting DDS ...

We present results on pentaquark searches from nuclear collisions at RHIC with the STAR detector system. An intriguing peak has been observed in the invariant mass distribution of pK+pK from 18.6 Million d+Au collision events at √ s NN = 200 GeV. The peak centers at a mass 1528± 2± 5 MeV/c and the FWHM ∼ 15 MeV/c limited by detector responses. The statistical significance of the peak is 4.2σ. S...

abstract   background : the application of du emanation for first time contaminated certain areas in the south west region of iraq after the second gulf war (1991). these contaminated areas were discovered in 1994. radioactive contamination was detected using the nuclear enterprise pcm5/1 in soil samples collected from two regions near by grazing lands. this study was done for assessment of du ...

The use of modeling programs such as MCNP to predict the response of HPGe detectors is increasing in importance. Accurate simulation of germanium detectors to incident gamma rays relies on knowledge of the performance of the detector in different detector-source geometries. Two important performance parameters are the resolution and sensitivity. The resolution is the FWHM and FW.1M/FWHM ratio. ...