suppression shield

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suppression shield [sə′presh·ən ‚shēld]

(nucleonics)

An array of high-efficiency, low-resolution gamma-ray detectors that surround a high-resolution gamma-ray detector and detect the background of gamma rays which is Compton scattered out of the germanium crystal, in order that these gamma rays may be excluded from the measurement.

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