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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2011, Article ID 741396, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/741396 Research Article An Optimized Design of Single-Channel Beta-Gamma Coincidence Phoswich Detector by Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulations Weihua Zhang, Pawel Mekarski, Marc Bean, Jing Yi, and Kurt Ungar Radiation Protection Bureau of Health Canada, 775 Brookfield Road, AL 6302D1, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 1C1 Correspondence should be addressed to Weihua Zhang, weihua.zhang@hc-sc.gc.ca Received 8 November 2010; Revised 31 January 2011; Accepted 16 March 2011 Academic Editor: Luigi Petrizzi Copyright © 2011 Weihua Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. An optimized single-channel phoswich well detector design has been proposed and assessed in order to improve beta-gamma coincidence measurement sensitivity of xenon radioisotopes. This newly designed phoswich well detector consists of a plastic beta counting cell (BC404) embedded in a CsI(Tl) crystal coupled to a photomultiplier tube. The BC404 is configured in a cylindrical pipe shape to minimise light collection deterioration. The CsI(Tl) crystal consists of a rectangular part and a semicylindrical scintillation part as a light reflector to increase light gathering. Compared with a PhosWatch detector, the final optimized detector geometry showed 15% improvement in the energy resolution of a 131mXe 129.4 keV conversion electron peak. The predicted beta- gamma coincidence efficiencies of xenon radioisotopes have also been improved accordingly. 1. Introduction (BC404). The embedde