TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF CSI(T1) ABSOLUTE SCINTILLATION YIELD

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作者
VALENTINE, JD [1 ]
WEHE, DK [1 ]
KNOLL, GF [1 ]
MOSS, CE [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MICHIGAN,DEPT NUCL ENGN,ANN ARBOR,MI 48109
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D O I
10.1109/TNS.1993.8526779
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A cubic CsI(Tl) crystal of 0.8 cm on a side was mounted on a 1 x 1 cm square photodiode to measure the absolute scintillation yield of CsI(Tl) between - 100 and + 50-degrees-C. The room temperature yield was measured to be 64,800 +/- 3,200 photons / MeV. The maximum yield was observed to occur at about - 35-degrees-C, approximately 6% above the room temperature yield. The yield was observed to decrease monotonically above and below this maximum. At - 100 and + 50-degrees-C the yield was measured to be about 64% and 95% of the room temperature yield, respectively. Over the range of - 55 to + 50-degrees-C the scintillation yield was observed to remain within +/- 6% of the room temperature yield. The temperature dependence of scintillation decay time, scintillation emission spectrum, and wavelength-dependent photodiode quantum efficiency were considered.
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