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IEEETRANSACTIONSONNUCLEARSCIENCE,VOL.63,NO.5,OCTOBER20162649

SpecialNuclearMaterialCharacterizationUsing

Digital3-DPositionSensitiveCdZnTeDetectors

andHighPurityGermaniumSpectrometers

MichaelStreicher,StevenBrown,YuefengZhu,DavidGoodman,andZhongHe,SeniorMember,IEEE

Abstract—Specialnuclearmaterial(SNM)monitoringoftenmaterialcannotberemovedeasilyfromalocationfor

requireshighresolutiongamma-rayspectroscopyformaterialmassspectroscopyoractiveinterrogationanalysis.These

characterization.PortablesystemsandrapiddeploymentareconditionsmayexistduringInternationalAtomicEnergy

alsohighlyvaluedforsomeapplications.Deployablegamma-ray

imagingspectrometersusingpixelatedCdZnTesemiconductorAgency(IAEA)inspectionsorinternationaltreatyverifi-

detectorshavebecomecommerciallyavailablewithinthepastcation.CdZnTehasdemonstratedenergyresolutionbelow

threeyearstomeettheserequirements.CdZnTesystemshave0.5%FWHMforsinglepixeleventsat662keV[2].The

demonstratedroom-temperatureenergyresolutionsbelow0.5%energyresolutionat185.7keVhasbeenmeasuredinthiswork

FWHMat662keVusingsinglepixeleventsandbelow0.7%tobe1.55%FWHM.Theintrinsicphotopeakefficiencyfor

FWHMat662keVusingallevents.Thesystemsareabletogo

fromstoragetomeasurementinlessthantwominutes.Special59.5keVgammaraysforacathodesideirradiationis99%

nuclearmaterialsweremeasuredattheY-12NationalSecurity