The origins of scintillator non-proportionality

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2038-2044

  Moses, W W ^a   Bizarri, G A ^a   Williams, R T ^b   Payne, S A ^c   Vasil'Ev, A N ^d   Singh, J ^e   Li, Q ^b   Grim, J Q ^b   Choong, W S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electron response; non proportionality; photon response; scintillation mechanisms; scintillators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON RESPONSE; INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH MATTER; LIGHT YIELD; NONPROPORTIONALITY; PHOTON RESPONSE; PHYSICAL SEPARATION; SCINTILLATION MECHANISMS; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

IONIZATION;

EID: 84867688152     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2186463     Document Type: Article

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