Book Description
In this thesis the method of fabrication of lithiumion-drifted detectors and their application to gamma-ray spectrometry of Si^°(d*n7)P^1 and Be^(a*ny)C12 reactions are described. 3 The planar-type detectors up to 5 cm sensitive 3 volume and a coaxial type detector of 10 cm sensitive volume have been fabricated. But due to the high leakage current caused by surface contamination* only a few planar-type detectors have been successfully tested. The intrinsic resolution of these detectors for 66l KeV gamma-ray of Cs1^ vary between 3.4 KeV to l6.7 KeV. The energy resolution of the best detector obtained was 3.4 KeV and 7*7 KeV for gamma-rays of energies 0.122 and 2.62 MeV respectively. This detector exhibited an absolute efficiency of 70$ for 122 KeV* decreasing to 0.8$ near the 2 MeV region. 3 A detector with sensitive volume of 3 cm has been 30 31 used to study the gamma-rays produced in the S1J (d*ny)P^ reaction with the hope of determining the branching ratios of 31 PJ gamma-ray transitions. But the low efficiency of the detector above 4 MeV did not allow such measurements to be made. In 12 addition* the 4.43 MeV gamma-ray for C produced by the Q 12 Be^(a*n7)C reaction was studied. This gamma-ray exhibited a Doppler shift and broadening which is discussed as a means of obtaining the lifetimes of nuclear excited states.