Effects of Ce concentration on scintillation properties of LaBr 3:Ce

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 III, 2005, Pages 1805-1808

  Glodo, J ^a,b   Moses, W W ^a,c   Higgins, W M ^b   Van Loef, E V D ^b   Wong, P ^b   Derenzo, S E ^a,c   Weber, M J ^c   Shah, K S ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

LaBr 3; Scintillation detectors; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

LABR3; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; TIMING MEASUREMENTS;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 29144490159     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.856906     Document Type: Article

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