Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection

316 Chapter 5. Solid State Detectors Bibliography [1] Adam, W. et al., Pulse Height Distribution and Radiation Tolerance of CVD ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY 317 [17] Hartjes, F. et al., Parameterization of Radiation Effects on CVD Dia- mond for Proton Irradiation, Nucl. P ...

318 Chapter 5. Solid State Detectors [34] Pidgeon, C.R., Suppression of Non-Radiative Processes in Semiconduc- tor Mid-Infrared ...

319 Chapter 6 Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors In Chapter 3 we saw that the passage of radiation through some material ...

320 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors is around 20%. This implies that 80% of the scintillation photons are ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 321 When radiation traverses a scintillation material it departs some o ...

322 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors 6.1.B LightYield This is perhaps the most important parameter for any ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 323 Figure 6.1.2: Relative light yield of various scintillators at diff ...

324 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors Figure 6.1.3: Energy resolution of some commonly used scintillators fo ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 325 Hence the efficiency of anthracene is given by η = (20,000)(2.63) 1 ...

326 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors Let us now see how the constantsτrandτdcan be defined. We start by wri ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 327 Figure 6.1.5: Time profile of scintillation pulse for three differe ...

328 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors decrease in light output due to temperature increase is generally refe ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 329 of information and therefore can induce non-linearities in the dete ...

330 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors In the process, they can emit light such as shown in Fig.6.1.6. Since ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 331 in the previous Chapter we would expect to see some variation. Fig. ...

332 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors Figure 6.1.9: Pulse decay ofLu 2 SiO 5 :Cecrystal at different tempera ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 333 Figure 6.1.10: Temperature dependence of two decay con- stants of p ...

334 Chapter 6. Scintillation Detectors and Photodetectors know that the number of charge pairs produced can be characterized by ...

6.1. Scintillation Mechanism and Scintillator Properties 335 Using this and the equation 6.1.6 we can write the expression for t ...