Title :
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-Doped Barium Halide Scintillators for X-Ray and
Author :
Selling, Julia ; Schweizer, Stefan ; Birowosuto, Muhammad D. ; Dorenbos, Pieter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Paderborn, Paderborn
fDate :
6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We report on the scintillation properties of undoped, Eu-, Ce-, and Ce/K-codoped BaCl2, BaBr2, and BaI2 single crystals, which were investigated by X-ray excited luminescence, pulse height, and scintillation decay spectroscopy.
Keywords :
X-ray detection; X-ray spectra; barium compounds; cerium; europium; gamma-ray detection; photoluminescence; potassium; scintillation counters; BaBr2; BaBr2:Ce3+; BaBr2:Ce3+,K+; BaBr2:Eu2+; BaCl2; BaCl2:Ce3+; BaCl2:Ce3+,K+; BaCl2:Eu2+; BaI2; BaI2:Ce3+; BaI2:Eu2+; Ce-doped barium halide scintillators; Eu-doped barium halide scintillators; X-ray detection; X-ray excited luminescence spectra; gamma-ray detection; scintillation decay spectroscopy; scintillation properties; Barium; Ceramics; Crystals; Glass; Luminescence; Nanocrystals; Spectroscopy; Temperature; X-ray detectors; X-ray imaging; $gamma$-ray detectors; Barium halides; X-ray detectors; scintillation detectors;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2008.922825