Energy Dependence of the Relative Light Output of YAlO3:Ce, Y2SiO5:Ce, and YPO4:Ce Scintillators

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Radiation, Radionulicdes and Reactors (AS) (TU Delft)
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DOI: https://doi.org/doi:10.1134/S0020441212020054
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01-03-2012

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Instruments and Experimental Techniques, 55(2)2012

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Applied Sciences

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Radiation, Radionulicdes and Reactors

Abstract

The nonlinear dependence of the relative light output on the energy deposited in single-crystal scintillation materials YAlO3:Ce (YAP:Ce), Y2SiO5:Ce (YSO:Ce), and YPO4:Ce (YPO:Ce) has been studied. The investigations have been conducted under quasi-monochromatic X-ray excitation in the energy range of 9.5–100 keV. In addition to the standard technique for measuring the nonproportional scintillator response based on the dependence of the full-energy peak position on the energy of incident radiation, a method is proposed for measuring the light output by X-ray fluorescence peaks. Using this method for YAP:Ce, it is possible to investigate the nonlinear dependence of the light output on the photon energy in the energy range of 2–40 keV. Along with this method, the K-dip spectroscopy method has been proposed and tested by measuring the dependence of the relative light output on the electron energy in the range of 0.1–80.0 keV. The processes resulting in the loss of the scintillation material efficiency at a high ionization density are considered.

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