Deep VUV Scintillators for Detectors Working in Cryogenic Environment

Author

Babin, Vladimir ; Feldbach, Eduard ; Kirm, Marco ; Makhov, Vladimir N. ; Vielhauer, Sebastian

Author_Institution

Inst. of Phys., Univ. of Tartu, Tartu

Volume

55

Issue

3

fYear

2008

fDate

6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1437

Lastpage

1444

Abstract

The properties of various inorganic scintillator materials with different origin of their VUV luminescence have been studied under pulsed excitation by XUV (50-1000 eV) synchrotron radiation. A comparison of spectral and timing characteristics of these crystalline VUV emitters has been performed. The processes of energy transfer from the host crystal to the luminescence centers of different nature were analyzed from the features of excitation spectra in the regions of inner-shell absorption.

Keywords

photoluminescence; solid scintillation detectors; synchrotron radiation; crossluminescence; cryogenic environment; crystalline VUV emitters; deep vacuum ultraviolet scintillators; electron volt energy 50 eV to 1000 eV; energy transfer; excitons; fast VUV luminescence; inorganic scintillator materials; pulsed excitation spectra; rare earth ions; synchrotron radiation; Absorption; Cryogenics; Crystalline materials; Crystallization; Detectors; Energy exchange; Inorganic materials; Luminescence; Synchrotron radiation; Timing; Crossluminescence; excitons; fast VUV luminescence; inorganic scintillators; rare earth ions; synchrotron radiation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2008.922828

Filename

4545141