Radiation damage studies performed at the Calliope gamma irradiation plant at ENEA (Italy)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8144, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Baccaro, S ^a   Cemmi, A ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma radiation; glasses; Irradiation plant; nuclear and space qualification; optical components; radiation damage; scintillating materials

Indexed keywords

DOPING EFFECTS; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; HOSTILE RADIATION; IRRADIATION FACILITIES; LEAD-FREE; NUCLEAR FUEL DISPOSAL; NUCLEAR PLANT; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; RADIATION PROCESSING; RADIATION RESISTANCE; RESEARCH CENTRES; SCINTILLATING MATERIALS; SPACE QUALIFICATION;

ELECTRON BEAM PUMPING; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; GLASS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LAKES; LEAD OXIDE; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

RADIATION;

EID: 80055063982     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.913879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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