Spectroscopy

This ultraconcurrent laboratory is based in an experimental practice about X-ray spectroscopy using a LEYBOLD-brand device that is installed in a radiological instrumentation laboratory in the National University of Costa Rica (Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica), located in the Applied Medical Physics building.

The assembly consists of an X-ray tube with a gold (Au) anode, together with a scintillation detector configured with a preamplifier and a digitizer that allows processing information from the measurements made by the detector through software.

The test aims to characterize the beam of the radiation source through the experimental calculation of the spectrum of the X-ray beam produced in the tube, in addition to generating basic notions about radiological instrumentation and how the variation of its parameters is used in industrial and medical applications.