@article{10f447d006a8472a9e6c24601077b928,
title = "Scintillation properties of praseodymium activated Lu3Al 5O12 single crystals",
abstract = "Scintillation properties of LuAG:Pr grown by Furukawa Co. Ltd., Japan, have been studied. The best crystals display light outputs up to 19000 ph/MeV and an energy resolution of 4.6% at 662 keV. The scintillation yield is found to be a function of size and temperature of the sample; it can be enhanced by 40% upon heating to 450 K. Radioluminescence spectra show both d-f and f-f transitions of Pr3+ ions; the contribution of the latter increases with temperature. The scintillation decays are complex, with a fast decay constant of 20 ns. The presence of 176Lu induces high background activity.",
keywords = "Energy resolution, LuAG, Praseodymium, Scintillation yield, Scintillator",
author = "Winicjusz Drozdowski and Pieter Dorenbos and {De Haas}, {Johan T.M.} and Renata Drozdowska and Alan Owens and Kei Kamada and Kousuke Tsutsumi and Yoshiyuki Usuki and Takayuki Yanagida and Akira Yoshikawa",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received January 7, 2008; revised March 8, 2008. Current version published September 19, 2008. This work was supported by the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. W. Drozdowski is with Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands, on leave from the Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Torun, Poland (e-mail: w.a.drozdowski@tudelft.nl; wind@fizyka.umk.pl). P. Dorenbos, J. T. M. de Haas, and R. Drozdowska are with Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands. A. Owens is with the European Space Agency, ESTEC SCI-A, 2201 AZ No-ordwijk, The Netherlands. K. Kamada, K. Tsutsumi, and Y. Usuki are with Materials Research Laboratory, Furukawa Company Ltd., Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0856, Japan. T. Yanagida and A. Yoshikawa are with the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tokohu University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNS.2008.2000845",
year = "2008",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1109/TNS.2008.2000845",
language = "English",
volume = "55",
pages = "2420--2424",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science",
issn = "0018-9499",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "4",
}