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Light‐yield improvement trends in mixed scintillation crystals
Author(s) -
Sidletskiy Oleg,
Gektin Alexander,
Belsky Andrei
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.201431137
Subject(s) - scintillation , yield (engineering) , mixing (physics) , materials science , ion , analytical chemistry (journal) , mineralogy , optics , chemistry , physics , chromatography , metallurgy , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , detector
The behavior of light yield in a wide range of inorganic scintillation crystals formed by isovalent substitution of anions or cations was investigated. The correlation between improvement of light yield in mixed crystals, and the ratios of volumes occupied by the competing atoms (ions) has been analyzed. A phenomenological approach to the prediction of light yield in mixed scintillation crystals allows us to predict the optimal combination of mixing components to reach the best scintillation performance. Relation between the rate of light‐yield improvement and ratio of the volumes occupied by the substituted atoms.