Abstract
A Ce-doped GAGG (Gadolinium Aluminum Gallium Garnet: Gd3Al2Ga3O12) scintillator crystal has been coupled with a multianode position sensitive photomultiplier tube (PSPMT). The system is made compact by employing an external resistive network that reduces the 64 readouts of the PSPMT to only four signals. The resulting GAGG(Ce)-PSPMT setup has been put to use for quick scanning of γ-ray detectors by reconstructing the image of the latter with coincident photons between the pair of detectors. In the present work, such scans are demonstrated for an old single-crystal coaxial reverse-electrode HPGe detector as well as an old clover HPGe detector. For the single-crystal HPGe, the growth of the effective depleted region under increasing reverse-bias voltages has been visualized from the image reconstruction. The active volume is seen to grow from the surface towards the axial cavity. For the clover HPGe detector, dysfunctional portions in the crystals could be identified. The experimental results are found to agree well with simulation carried out using the GEANT4 toolkit. Scanning a detector using this method is faster compared to the scanning process by a point source.
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