Phoswich scintillator for proton and gamma radiation of high energy
Paper in proceeding, 2011

We present here a Phoswich scintillator design to achieve both high resolution gamma ray detection, and good efficiency for high energy protons. There are recent developments of new high resolution scintillator materials. Especially the LaBr3(Ce) and LaCl3(Ce) crystals have very good energy resolution in the order of 3% for 662 keV gamma radiation. In addition, these materials exhibit a very good light output (63 and 32 photons/keV respectively). A demonstrator detector in the form of an Al cylinder of 24 mm diameter and a total length of 80 mm with 2 mm wall thickness, containing a LaBr3(Ce) crystal of 20 mm diameter and 30 mm length directly coupled to a LaCl3(Ce) crystal of 50 mm length, and closed with a glass window of 5 mm, was delivered by Saint Gobain. To the glass window a Hamamatsu R5380 Photomultiplier tube (PMT) was coupled using silicon optical grease. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.

Author

O. Tengblad

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

Thomas Nilsson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

M. J. G. Borge

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

J. A. Briz

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

M. Carmona-Gallardo

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

Carlos M. Cruz

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

V. Gugliermina

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

E. Nácher

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

A. Perea

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

J. Sanchez Del Rio

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

M. Turrion Nieves

CSIC - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)

Håkan T Johansson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

Johan Bergström

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

Erik Blomberg

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

A. Bülling

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

E. Gallneby

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

Julius Hagdahl

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

L. Jansson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

Klas Jareteg

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

R. Masgren

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

Martin Nordström

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

G. Risting

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

S. Shojaee

Chalmers, Applied Physics

Henry Wittler

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

AIP Conference Proceedings

0094-243X (ISSN) 1551-7616 (eISSN)

Vol. 1409 141-144
978-073540983-5 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Physical Sciences

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1063/1.3664166

ISBN

978-073540983-5

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