Evaluate scintillation response over a continuous energy region

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1097-1101

  Zhang, Yanwen ^a   Elfman, Mikael ^b   Milbrath, Brian D ^a   Weber, William J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Helium; Nonlinearities; Scintillation detectors; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CALCIUM; CALCIUM FLUORIDE; EUROPIUM; HELIUM; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; TELESCOPES;

BISMUTH GERMANATE (BGO); CONTINUOUS ENERGY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EUROPIUM-DOPED; FAST RESPONSE; HIGH-COUNT RATE; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; LIGHT OUTPUT; MATERIAL PERFORMANCES; NONLINEARITY (INCLUDING BIFURCATION THEORY); QUANTITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCINTILLATION PERFORMANCE; SCINTILLATION RESPONSES; SHORT TIME; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF);

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 45849136036     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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