762 INDEX
internal, 28
man made, 29
terrestrial, 28
radiative capture, 139
radioactive decay, 4, 5
alpha decay, 5
beta decay, 5
decay energy, 9
decay equation, 11
decay equilibrium, 22
no equilibrium, 24
secular equilibrium, 22
transient equilibrium, 24
gamma decay, 5
radioactive chain, 18
spontaneous fission, 5
radioactivity, 4
units of, 25
radiochromatic materials, 633
radionuclides, 15
composite, 15
range straggling, 118
Rayleigh scattering, 94
reaction rate constant, 238
recoil energy, 44
recombination
coefficient, 236
geminate, 235
germinate, 235
recombination region, 161
regression, 555
nonlinear, 556
simple linear, 555
relative biological effectiveness, 622
residual radiation, 26
ROOT, 575
sampling frequency, 425
sampling theorem, 427
saturation velocity, 226
scattering
Compton, 87
elastic, 77
Rayleigh, 94
Thompson, 94
Schottky diode, 299
scintillation, 320
afterglow, 329
Birk’s formula, 341
core valence band luminescence, 352
delayed light, 330
dopant luminescence, 352
exciton luminescence, 351
light yield, 322
phosphorescence, 329
saturation parameter, 341
Stoke’s law, 337
scintillation detector
efficiency, 333
energy resolution, 324
liquid, 221
quenching, 327
radiation damage, 332
wavelength shifter, 329
scintillation fiber detector, 457
scintillator
BGO, 357
CWO, 358
CsI, 332, 357
NaI, 354, 673
PWO, 358
crystalline, 348
fluors, 344
GSO, 358
inorganic, 350
liquid, 345
luminous centers, 333
organic, 348
p-terphenyl, 350
plastic, 323, 339
stilbene, 350
wavelength shifter, 345
scintillator detector
quantum efficiency, 334
radiation damage, 352
secondary fluor, 329
semi-Gaussian pulse shaping, 488
semi-triangular pulse shaping, 489
semiconductor, 249
acceptor impurity, 254
depletion region, 284
doping, 252
p-type, 254
pn-junction, 284
band gap, 250
cadmium-zinc-tellurium (CZT), 266,
283