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Scintillation mechanism and radiation damage in CexLa1-xF3 crystals

  • 1. N. Copernicus Univ., Torun (Poland)
  • 2. Boston Univ., MA (United States)
  • 3. Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs (United States)
  • 4. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
  • 5. CNRS, Villeurbanne (France)

Description

Recent spectroscopic and radiation damage experiments on a series of CexLa1-xF3 crystals suggest that the scintillation light output is limited by an unusual quenching mechanism, which also plays a major role in minimizing radiation-induced damage. The intensity of the radiation-induced absorptions is a strong function of the Ce content x, reaching a maximum for x = 0.03 and a minimum for x = 1. This peculiar dependence appears to be due to the influence of deep-lying Ce levels on both scintillation mechanism and radiation damage. The authors suggest that various charge transfer processes can explain many aspects of the performance of CexLa1-xF3 scintillators

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
7 p.
Report number
BNL--60593

Conference

Title
Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society.
Dates
4-8 Apr 1994.
Place
San Francisco, CA (United States).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC02-76CH00016; FG02-90ER61033
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
CONF-940411--43.