30 July 2026 to 5 August 2026
Natal, Brazil
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

Development of an interactive ionizing radiation detector simulator for educational purposes

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20m
Natal, Brazil

Natal, Brazil

Via Costeira Sen. Dinarte Medeiros Mariz, 6664-6704 - Ponta Negra, Natal - RN, 59090-002
Poster (early career: student or postdoctoral researcher) Education & Outreach

Speaker

Pedro Eduardo Gonçalves Oliveira (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

Description

This work aims to simulate the radioactive source, detector, detection electronics, and analog-to-digital converter system, generally used for the determination, in multichannel technology, of the energy spectrum of γ and β emitting sources. It is important to emphasize that the manipulation of radioactive sources by undergraduate students in Physics or Engineering can be a fearful or even dangerous practice. Furthermore, for some secondary or higher education institutions, obtaining authorization from the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) to obtain, transport, and store radioactive sources can become a bureaucratic and complex task. In contrast to the aforementioned limitations and difficulties, simulating radioactive sources from photons emitted by light-emitting diodes (LEDs), particularly IR LEDs, has the virtue of not being radiations visible to the naked eye, nor ionizing, which allows an adequate mimicry of radioactive sources.

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Authors

Dr Iuri Muniz Pepe (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Pedro Eduardo Gonçalves Oliveira (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

Co-authors

Mr André Jackson dos Ramos Simões (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Mrs Dainane Andrade dos Santos Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Mr Fabrizio Gabriel da Silva Correia (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Ms Juliane Grasiela de Carvalho Gomes (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Dr Leandro do Rozário Teixeira (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Mr Leonardo de Jesus Paiva (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Mr Teones Araujo Nascimento (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

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