Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B· 2018Q1· Review
Inorganic scintillating materials and scintillation detectors
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- 2018year
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This review covers inorganic scintillating materials and detectors, detailing fundamental physics, common materials, and key properties like light yield, energy resolution, and decay time.
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Key points
- Scintillation materials and detectors are crucial for diverse applications including medical imaging, security, and high-energy physics.
- Key properties discussed include light yield, energy non-proportionality, emission wavelength, energy resolution, decay time, effective atomic number, and timing resolution.
- The review explains emission mechanisms of scintillator materials.
- Unresolved problems in scintillation phenomena, such as positive hysteresis and excitation density effects, are discussed with recent interpretations.
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Abstract
Scintillation materials and detectors that are used in many applications, such as medical imaging, security, oil-logging, high energy physics and non-destructive inspection, are reviewed. The fundamental physics understood today is explained, and common scintillators and scintillation detectors are introduced. The properties explained here are light yield, energy non-proportionality, emission wavelength, energy resolution, decay time, effective atomic number and timing resolution. For further understanding, the emission mechanisms of scintillator materials are also introduced. Furthermore, unresolved problems in scintillation phenomenon are considered, and my recent interpretations are discussed. These topics include positive hysteresis, the co-doping of non-luminescent ions, the introduction of an aimed impurity phase, the excitation density effect and the complementary relationship between scintillators and storage phosphors.
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