Deep VUV scintillators for detectors working in cryogenic environment

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1437-1444

  Babin, Vladimir ^a   Feldbach, Eduard ^a   Kirm, Marco ^a   Makhov, Vladimir N ^b   Vielhauer, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Crossluminescence; Excitons; Fast VUV luminescence; Inorganic scintillators; Rare earth ions; Synchrotron radiation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

(PL) PROPERTIES; CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; LUMINESCENCE CENTERS; PULSED EXCITATIONS; TIMING CHARACTERISTICS; VUV LUMINESCENCE; VUV SCINTILLATORS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 45849103906     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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