The invention relates to a close-range detector antenna design method, and belongs to the technical field of millimeter wave antennas. Comprising the following steps: 1, establishing a half-wave dipole antenna model and optimizing antenna parameters to obtain an optimized oscillator antenna model; 2, selecting the size and the material of the horn antenna, wherein the horn antenna comprises a horn and an antenna feed source, and the antenna feed source is the 120 GHz half-wave dipole antenna optimized in the step 1, and the loudspeaker adopts a circular waveguide; and 3, establishing and selecting the structural type, the size, the inner wall thickness and the material of an antenna hood, and determining a high-wave-transparent material medium, the thicknesses of the hood wall and the hood front end and the distance from the hood to the antenna so as to design the hood, specifically, 3.A) selecting the high-wave-transparent material medium, the thicknesses of the hood wall and the hood front end and the distance from the hood to the antenna; and 3.B) constructing modeling on the hood. The antenna designed by the method is simple in structure, wide in frequency band, large in power capacity, convenient to adjust and use and very high in resolution and tracking capability, and the anti-interference capability of a detector is greatly improved.