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Tsutsumi, Masahiro; Tanimura, Yoshihiko
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 557(2), p.554 - 560, 2006/02
Times Cited Count:16 Percentile:71.42(Instruments & Instrumentation)A new cerium-doped LaCl(Ce) scintillator is evaluated with respect to the application in environmental
-ray dosimetry and spectrometry. The scintillator is very attractive for
-ray spectrometry in the case of high count rate, because it has excellent energy resolution and fast decay time. The performance characteristics of a scintillator with a 25.4 mm
25.4 mm LaCl
(Ce) crystal are studied and compared to those of a NaI(Tl) scintillator with the same size crystal. Acquired pulse-height spectra are converted to dose rates by using the G(E) function method. Though the LaCl
(Ce) crystal itself produces a rather high background in the crystal itself, the scintillator provides good energy information and dose-rate readings from low to high-level (several mGy/h) by subtracting the self-background. The properties of LaCl
(Ce) scintillator suggest that the scintillator could be a promising candidate for monitoring at high-dose levels as in emergencies, as well as at ordinary levels of background radiation.
; ; Asano, Yoshihiro; Usuda, Shigekazu
JAERI-Tech 98-043, 27 Pages, 1998/09
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