Properties of a YAP powder scintillator as alpha-ray detector

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 365-368

  Yasuda, Kenichiro ^a   Usuda, Shigekazu ^a   Gunji, Hideho ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fast acting; Properties; Pulse height distributions; Rise time distributions; Scintillator; YAP powder; YAP YAG phoswich; ZnS(Ag); Ray detector

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ALPHA PARTICLES; CRYSTALS; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POWDERS; RADIATION; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ALPHA RAY DETECTOR; PHOSWICH DETECTION SYSTEMS; PULSE HEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; RISE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; YTTERBIUM ALUMINA POWDER;

PHOSPHORS;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0034160077     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(99)00179-7     Document Type: Article

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