Gadolinium pyrosilicate single crystals for gamma ray and thermal neutron monitoring

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 45, Issue 3-6, 2010, Pages 365-368

  Sidletskiy, Oleg ^a   Baumer, Vyacheslav ^b   Gerasymov, Iaroslav ^a   Grinyov, Boris ^a   Katrunov, Konstantin ^a   Starzhinsky, Nikolai ^a   Tarasenko, Oleg ^a   Tarasov, Vladimir ^a   Tkachenko, Sergiy ^a   Voloshina, Olesya ^a   Zelenskaya, Olga ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SCINTILLATION MATERIALS   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Afterglow; Gadolinium pyrosilicate; Gamma rays; Scintillator; Thermal neutrons

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL QUALITIES; CZOCHRALSKI METHODS; DECAY TIME; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LIGHT OUTPUT; THERMAL NEUTRONS; THERMAL STABILITY;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CESIUM; GADOLINIUM; GAMMA RAYS; GERMANIUM; LIGHT EMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUTRONS; SCINTILLATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77955309042     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2009.12.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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