• B P Ajith Kumar

Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics

• The automatic liquid nitrogen filling system for GDA detectors

An indigenously developed automatic liquid nitrogen (LN2) filling system has been installed in gamma detector array (GDA) facility at Nuclear Science Centre. Electro-pneumatic valves are used for filling the liquid nitrogen into the high purity germanium detector cryostat. The temperature of the out-flowing gas/liquid from the cryostat is monitored using platinum resistor thermometer. The program allows for automatic filling at regular intervals with temperature monitoring from a remote terminal.

• Superconducting linear accelerator system for NSC

This paper reports the construction of a superconducting linear accelerator as a booster to the 15 UD Pelletron accelerator at Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi. The LINAC will use superconducting niobium quarter wave resonators as the accelerating element. Construction of the linear accelerator has progressed sufficiently. Details of the entire accelerator system including the cryogenics facility, RF electronics development, facilities for fabricating niobium resonators indigenously, and present status of the project are presented.

• A light weight multichannel analyser and $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy system: Application to estimate $^{40}K$ content in some potassium salts and building materials

A $\gamma$ -ray spectroscopy system based on a $1" \times 1"$ NaI(Tl) detector and $1.5"$ photomultiplier tube has been developed at IUAC for teaching laboratory applications involving radioactive sources. Following along the lines of the Phoenix and Expeyes hardware developed in the laboratory earlier, a low-cost, light weight multichannel analyser also has been developed. Here the details about the same are presented. The detector–analyser system has been used as a part of the postgraduate curriculum for measuring $^{40}\rm{K}$ content in some potassium salts and common building materials like brick, cement, concrete and sand.

• # Pramana – Journal of Physics

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Volume 93 | Issue 2
August 2019