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Composite Scintillator

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Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies (ISMART 2016)

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The review of composite scintillators for cost-efficient large area detectors is presented. Design features of composite scintillator depending on the applications are discussed. Scintillation and optical materials for their production are considered. Along with single crystals scintillation powders obtained by sol-gel method as well as by solid state synthesis can be used for composites fabrication. Regularities of the light collection in composite layer are described. Composite scintillators can be a base for neutron and gamma detectors for medical radiography as well. For high energy physics (HEP) the optimum design with the maximum light output and high radiation hardness is proposed. It is shown that the composite scintillator with quartz light conducting layer and YAG:Ce wavelength shifting light guide can provide the optimal solution.

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  1. Institute for Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 60 Nauky Ave., Kharkiv, 61001, Ukraine

    A. Yu. Boyarintsev, T. A. Nepokupnaya, Yu. D. Onufriyev & V. A. Tarasov

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    Alexander Gektin

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Boyarintsev, A.Y., Nepokupnaya, T.A., Onufriyev, Y.D., Tarasov, V.A. (2017). Composite Scintillator. In: Korzhik, M., Gektin, A. (eds) Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies. ISMART 2016. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68465-9_11

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