Optical and scintillation properties of polydimethyl-diphenylsiloxane based organic scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages 891-900

  Quaranta, Alberto ^a,b   Carturan, Sara Maria ^b,c   Marchi, Tommaso ^b   Kravchuk, Vladimir L ^d   Gramegna, Fabiana ^b   Maggioni, Gianluigi ^b,c   Degerlier, Meltem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy transfer; Ion beam induced luminescence; Polysiloxane; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

DYE MOLECULE; ION BEAM INDUCED LUMINESCENCES; LIGHT YIELD; MOLAR PERCENTAGE; ORGANIC SCINTILLATOR; OXAZOLES; PHENYL GROUP; PHENYL UNITS; POLYMER NETWORKS; POLYSILOXANES; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; SCINTILLATION YIELD MEASUREMENTS; SCINTILLATION YIELDS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION; IONS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; NEUTRON DETECTORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOSPHORS; POLYMERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICONES; THIOPHENE;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 77951147671     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2042817     Document Type: Article

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