Experimental and computational results on exciton/free-carrier ratio, hot/thermalized carrier diffusion, and linear/nonlinear rate constants affecting scintillator proportionality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8852, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Williams, R T ^a   Grim, Joel Q ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Ucer, K B ^a   Bizarri, G A ^b   Kerisit, S ^c   Gao, Fei ^c   Bhattacharya, P ^d   Tupitsyn, E ^d   Rowe, E ^d   Buliga, V M ^d   Burger, A ^d  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion; hot electron; light yield; nonlinear quenching; nonproportionality; scintillator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LIGHT YIELD; NONPROPORTIONALITY; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; THERMALIZED CARRIERS; TRANSIENT OPTICAL ABSORPTIONS;

DIFFUSION; DISSOCIATION; EXCITONS; EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; HOT ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; QUENCHING; RATE CONSTANTS; X RAYS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 84887005679     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2027716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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