Dependence of nonproportionality in scintillators on diffusion of excitons and charge carriers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8142, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Williams, R T ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Grim, Joel Q ^a   Ucer, K B ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CsI:Tl; dipole dipole quenching; mobility; nonproportionality; scintillator

Indexed keywords

AUGER QUENCHING; CSI:TL; CYLINDRICAL TRACKS; DIPOLE-DIPOLE; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; ELECTRON TRACKS; ELECTRON YIELD; FREE CARRIERS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HIGH PURITY; INITIAL RATE; INITIAL TIME; NONPROPORTIONALITY; PICOSECONDS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; QUENCHING RATE CONSTANT; SCINTILLATOR; SELF-TRAPPED HOLES; THERMALIZATION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ALKALI HALIDES; CHARGE CARRIERS; EXCITONS; GAMMA RAYS; GERMANIUM; IONIZATION; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; QUENCHING; RADIATION DETECTORS; RATE CONSTANTS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 80055040424     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.895038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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