• DocumentCode
    57677
  • Title

    Effect of Time-Dependent Local Excitonic Concentration in the Track on Nonproportionality in Light Yield of Inorganic Scintillators

  • Author

    Singh, Jaskirat ; Williams, Richard T. ; Koblov, Alex ; Surovtseva, Daria

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. & IT, Charles Darwin Univ., Darwin, NT, Australia
  • Volume
    61
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Feb. 2014
  • Firstpage
    252
  • Lastpage
    256
  • Abstract
    A phenomenological approach is applied to derive the light yield of a scintillator as a function of the rates of various radiative and nonradiative linear and nonlinear processes that may occur within the track. The effect of evolution of the excitation concentration within the track is studied. It is found out that an exciton formation time less than a ns can lead to minimizing the nonproportionality in scintillators.
  • Keywords
    excitons; solid scintillation detectors; exciton formation; inorganic scintillators; nonproportionality; nonradiative nonlinear processes; phenomenological approach; time-dependent local excitonic concentration; Excitons; Radiative recombination; Tracking; Exciton formation time; light yield in scintillators; linear and nonlinear radiative and nonradiative processes; nonproportionality in scintillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.2013.2280011
  • Filename
    6636119