Comparative study of large NaI(Tl) and BGO scintillators for the EURopean illicit TRAfficking countermeasures kit project

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1508-1514

  Gierlik, Michał ^b   Batsch, Tadeusz ^b   Moszyński, Marek ^a,b   Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^b   Wolski, Dariusz ^b   Klamra, Włodzimierz ^c   Perot, Bertrand ^d   Perret, Gregory ^d  

^a IEEE

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

Border monitoring; Explosives detection; Neutron activation analysis; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTING BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

BORDER MONITORING; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; PEAK-TO-TOTAL RATIOS; TAGGED NEUTRON INSPECTION SYSTEM;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33846578598     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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