Light Output Response of GSO(Ce) Crystals to Relativistic Carbon Ions

Author

Wakabayashi, Genichiro ; Koba, Yusuke ; Imamura, Minoru ; Uozumi, Yusuke ; Koba, Naoya ; Shimazu, Takuro ; Kaneko, Motohisa ; Ohkawa, Hitoshi ; Ikeda, Nobuo ; Kin, Tadahiro ; Matsufuji, Naruhiro

Author_Institution

Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

1175

Lastpage

1177

Abstract

We have investigated the light output response of a GSO(Ce) crystal to carbon ions of energy up to 3.34 GeV. An experiment was carried out with HIMAC at National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, Japan. The incident energy of carbon beam was changed by inserting target materials with different thicknesses as degraders. Experimental results were consistent with the calculated curve by Birks equation, and the light output plotted as a function of deposited energy in the GSO(Ce) crystal showed a slight non-linearity in the low energy region and a good linearity in the higher energy region above around 1.5 GeV.

Keywords

gadolinium compounds; photoluminescence; scintillation; 3.34 GeV; Birks equation; GSO(Ce) crystals; Gd₂SiO₅-Ce; carbon beam; light output response; relativistic carbon ions; Apertures; Collimators; Crystalline materials; Crystals; Degradation; Detectors; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Organic materials; Particle measurements; Plastics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356053

Filename

4179207