Thursday, September 24, 2009

Plots with all shielding configurations

The following graphs are plotted using counts taken by both LEG-1 and SPA-3 gamma counters. Furthermore, measurements were taken with all the different shielding configurations as described in the previous posts.


Thursday, September 17, 2009

Measurements with shielded gamma counters

Now we take measurements with two shielding arrangements. 1) The detector is fully shielded with lead bricks and 2) The bottom side of the detector is open and other sides are covered. The second shielding configuration is used to check the gamma counts from the floor.

Detector is fully covered with lead bricks
















The bottom side of the detector is open but other sides are covered with lead bricks

Mohammad Javani who is a grad student at Physics department of GSU is taking measurments on roof.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Plots with shielded gamma counters

The following graphs were plotted using data from shielded gamma counters(SPA-3 and LEG-1). 3 lead bricks were placed on sides of the counters and one was placed beneath the counters as displayed in the previous pictures. Measurments were taken on different floors of NSC building. 1 and 6 refer to basement and roof of NSC building.