Gamma ray spectra of two (p, γ) resonances have been utilised for the characterisation of
the Clover detector at energies beyond 5MeV. Apart from the efficiency and the resolution of
the detector, the shapes of the full energy peaks as well as the nature of the escape peaks
which are also very crucial at higher energies have been analysed with special attention.
Proper gain matching in software have checked deterioration in the energy resolution and
distortion in the peak shape due to addback. The addback factors show sharp increasing …

The Clover detectors in their add back mode have been seen to be excellent tools for
detecting high energy gamma rays ({>=} 2 MeV). Recently studies were carried out on the
characteristics of a Compton suppressed Clover germanium detector up to 5 MeV using a
radioactive {sup 66} Ga (T {sub 1/2}= 9.41 h) source for the first time.