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4. How to select a scintillating material?
The universal scintillator does not exist. Among all the parameters described in paragraph 3 , it is crucial to sort the priorities. The number of existing scintillating material types is rather large, all of them having their own specificities. In order to focus on the appropriate one, the first criterion is to estimate the desired timing performance.
Two main application types exist:...
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Interactions with ionizing radiation
Bibliography
Websites
Calculation of the transmission spectra of materials http://henke.pbl.gov/optical_constants
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SCINT, International Conference on Inorganic Scintillator and their Applications. This conference occurs every 2 years http://Scint.univ-lyon1.fr
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