Stability of spectrometric characteristics of CsI:Tl detectors depending on the surface treatment method
Authors:
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Instruments and Experimental Techniques
- Vol. 49 (3) , 314-317
Abstract
The influence of various mechanochemical methods used to treat the entrance surface of a CsI:Tl scintillator on the specific light output and the pulse-height resolution during detection of α particles with energies of 2 or 5 MeV is described. Nonlinearity between the light output and the energy of α particles increases from 7% for a polished surface to 35% after grinding, which leads to a degraded pulse-height resolution. A method for treating the CsI:Tl surface is proposed that minimizes the light-output nonlinearity and ensures stability of spectrometric characteristics in time.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Factors which define the α/γ ratio in CsI:Tl crystalsNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2005
- The tuning of CsI(Tl) crystals: methods and results2002
- The Theory and Practice of Scintillation Counting1964