Determination of the detection efficiency of a planar HPGe detector with a non-uniform frontal dead layer

Peak efficiency of a non‐uniform frontal dead layer planar detector was simulated with the general purpose Monte Carlo radiation transport code PENELOPE. In a previous publication, using experimental data and an analytical model proposed by Seltzer, we found the structure and dimensions of the detectors dead layer. In this work, we used our previous results as input for a Monte Carlo simulation that considered a point source emitting specific...