Nonproportionality of scintillator detectors: Theory and experiment. II

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3392-3402

  Payne, Stephen A ^a   Moses, William W ^b   Sheets, Steven ^a   Ahle, Larry ^a   Cherepy, Nerine J ^a   Sturm, Benjamin ^a   Dazeley, Steven ^a   Bizarri, Gregory ^b   Choong, Woon Seng ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonproportionality; radiation detector; scintillators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON RESPONSE; ELECTRON STOPPING; EXCITON-EXCITON ANNIHILATION; HOST LATTICE; LINEAR ENERGY; NONPROPORTIONALITY; ONSAGER; ORGANICS; SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR;

ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; IONIZATION; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 83855165078     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2167687     Document Type: Article

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