Scintillation properties of praseodymium doped LuAG scintillator compared to cerium doped LuAG, LSO and LaBr3

L. Swiderski, M. Moszynski, A. Nassalski, A. Syntfeld-Kazuch, T. Szczȩśsniak, K. Kamada, K. Tsutsumi, Y. Usuki, T. Yanagida, A. Yoshikawa, W. Chewpraditkul

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Abstract

Properties of praseodymium and cerium doped Lutetium Aluminum Garnet (LuAG) were compared with cerium doped Lutetium Oxyorthosilicate (LSO) and Lanthanum Bromide (LaBr3). Light yield, its non-proportionality relative to 662 keV γ-rays and the dependence of the energy resolution on energy of the detected γ-rays were measured. LuAG:Pr turned out to have good proportionality, with deviation from unity around 10% at 16.6 keV and 3% at 59.5 keV. This, together with relatively high light yield of 5600 phe/MeV results in a very good energy resolution of LuAG:Pr of 5.1% measured with 662 keV ́-rays. Coincidence time resolution was measured to be 308 ps, significantly larger than that of LSO:Ce - 166 ps. This can be explained by smaller light yield of LuAG:Pr and the fact that only around 25% of its scintillation is emitted in short decay time modes of 17.6 ns and 52 ns, while the rest is decaying with long time modes of 1.4 μs and 9 μs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008
Pages2840-2846
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008 - Dresden, Germany
Duration: 2008 Oct 192008 Oct 25

Publication series

NameIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
ISSN (Print)1095-7863

Conference

Conference2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDresden
Period08/10/1908/10/25

Keywords

  • Decay time constant
  • Energy resolution
  • LSO
  • LuAG
  • Non-proportionality
  • Time resolution

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