Luminescence and scintillation properties of VUV scintillation crystals based on lu-admixed BaY 2 F 8

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2177-2182

  Pejchal, Jan ^a,b   Fukuda, Kentaro ^c   Nikl, Martin ^b   Kawaguchi, Noriaki ^c   Yokota, Yuui ^d   Yanagida, Takayuki ^d   Yoshikawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c TOKUYAMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorides; rare earth doping; scintillator; X ray and gamma ray detection

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPING; EXCITON LEVEL; EXCITONIC EMISSION; FLUORIDES; GAMMA-RAY DETECTION; HOST MATRICES; MICRO-PULLING-DOWN METHOD; ND-DOPED; RARE-EARTH DOPING; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION PERFORMANCE; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; TM-DOPED; VUV SCINTILLATORS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GAMMA RAYS; NEODYMIUM; PHOSPHORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 84867573024     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2197418     Document Type: Article

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