TY - JOUR
T1 - Response properties of YAlO3:Ce scintillation crystal under ion irradiation
AU - Liu, Peng
AU - Zhang, Yanwen
AU - Wang, Xuelin
AU - Xiang, Xia
AU - Weber, William J.
N1 - Funding Information:
W.J. Weber and Y. Zhang were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering Division . P. Liu was supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) overseas scholarship program. A portion of research was performed at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) , a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A novel ion-scintillator technique used to evaluate the scintillation response is demonstrated using YAlO3:Ce crystal under H+, He+ and O3+ ions irradiation. The experiment setup, including a forward-scatter target and a time-of-flight telescope, allows quantitative measurement of each ion-scintillator interaction event over a continuous ion energy range, and the related response properties of YAlO 3:Ce, including the luminescent photon yield, nonlinear response and energy resolution, have been studied by detailed analysis of the total electronic energy deposition, electronic energy loss density and the displacement damage during ion irradiation process. The measured response properties of YAlO3:Ce under ion irradiation are consistent with that from the gamma tests, which demonstrates that this technique, applicable to small crystals or thin films, can rapidly and effectively evaluate the scintillator performance and, therefore, assist accelerated discovery of radiation detection materials.
AB - A novel ion-scintillator technique used to evaluate the scintillation response is demonstrated using YAlO3:Ce crystal under H+, He+ and O3+ ions irradiation. The experiment setup, including a forward-scatter target and a time-of-flight telescope, allows quantitative measurement of each ion-scintillator interaction event over a continuous ion energy range, and the related response properties of YAlO 3:Ce, including the luminescent photon yield, nonlinear response and energy resolution, have been studied by detailed analysis of the total electronic energy deposition, electronic energy loss density and the displacement damage during ion irradiation process. The measured response properties of YAlO3:Ce under ion irradiation are consistent with that from the gamma tests, which demonstrates that this technique, applicable to small crystals or thin films, can rapidly and effectively evaluate the scintillator performance and, therefore, assist accelerated discovery of radiation detection materials.
KW - Energy loss
KW - Ion irradiation
KW - Scintillation response
KW - Time of flight
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84885173439
U2 - 10.1016/j.nimb.2013.01.018
DO - 10.1016/j.nimb.2013.01.018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885173439
SN - 0168-583X
VL - 307
SP - 49
EP - 54
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
ER -