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NaI(Tl) scintillation detector is simulated, and the energy deposited by incoming gamma photons is obtained using GEANT4. Then the scintillation process is separately simulated statistically using R, which is a software environment for statistical computing, to produce scintillation photons and the corresponding electrons in PMT. We compared the obtained energy spectrum with the experimental data for Co\(^{60}\) gamma source. The simulated result along with the comparison with experimental data is presented.
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Geant4, a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/
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I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Ritesh K. Singh (IISER-K) for giving me this opportunity and idea to learn GEANT4 which would be very useful for my research career in High Energy Physics. I would also like to thank Prof. Satyaki Bhattacharya (SINP) and Prof. Subhasis Chattopadhyay (VECC) for their valuable guidance throughout my work.
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Nag, A. (2018). Simulation of Gamma Detection Using GEANT4. In: Biswas, S., Das, S., Ghosh, S. (eds) Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7665-7_19
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