Scintillation properties of Ce 3+-and Pr 3+-Doped LuAG, YAG and Mixed Lu xY 1-xAG garnet crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2120-2125

  Mares, Jiri A ^a   Nikl, Martin ^a   Beitlerova, Alena ^a   Horodysky, Petr ^b   Blazek, Karel ^b   Bartos, Karel ^b   D'Ambrosio, Carmelo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Crytur Ltd   (Czech Republic)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ce 3+ and Pr 3+ doping; energy resolution; light yield; LuAG; proportionality; scintillation; YAG and Lu xY 1 x AG garnet crystals

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; GARNET CRYSTALS; LIGHT YIELD; LUAG; PROPORTIONALITY;

ALUMINUM; GARNETS; SCINTILLATION;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84867577734     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2191573     Document Type: Article

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