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Energy Resolution and Non-proportionality of Scintillation Detectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Marek Moszynski
Marek Moszynski*
Affiliation:
marek@ipj.gov.pl, Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Department of Detectors and Nuclear Electronics, Swierk, Otwock, PL 05-400, Poland, +48 22 718 05 86, +48 22 779 34 81
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Abstract

The limitation of energy resolution of scintillation detectors are discussed with a special emphasis on non-proportionality response of scintillators to gamma rays and electrons, which is of crucial importance to an intrinsic energy resolution of the crystals. Examples of the study carried out with different crystals and particularly those of tests of undoped NaI and CsI at liquid nitrogen temperature with the light readout by avalanche photodiodes are presented suggesting strongly that the non-proportionality of the halide crystals are not their intrinsic property. Moreover, the influence of slow components of the light pulses on energy resolution and non-proportionality are discussed.

Keywords

activation analysisx-ray tomographyluminescence
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1038: Symposium O – Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials , 2007 , 1038-O07-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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