Optical and scintillation properties of Bi4Si3O12:RE (RE=Eu3+, Sm3+, Ho3+, Tb3+) single crystals |
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| Authors: | Xuefeng Xiao Jiayue Xu Haicheng Wei Yaoqing Chu Bobo Yang Xuefeng Zhang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Physics and Photoelectric Information Functional Materials Sciences and Technology, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China;2. College of Electric and Information Engineering, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China;3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China;4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China;5. Ningxia Ju Jing Yuan Crystal Technology Company Limited, Shizuishan 753000, China |
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| Abstract: | Bi4Si3O12:RE (BSO:RE, RE = Eu3+, Sm3+, Ho3+, Tb3+) crystals were grown by the modified vertical Bridgeman method, and doping effects on scintillation properties were investigated. Under γ-ray irradiation, the light yield of BSO doped with small doses of Eu3+ increases slightly, and the energy resolution improves significantly compared to pure BSO, therefore the ability of distinguishing between particles will be improved for BSO crystals with a small amount of Eu3+ dopant. The results show that a small amount of Eu3+ doping can sensitize the Bi3+ ions. The sensitization effect enables the reduction of intrinsic defects, and thus improves the scintillation properties. However, the relative light yield of BSO:Tb (1.0 mol%) crystal is 4.3%, which is smaller than 5.0% of pure BSO. The improved light yield and energy resolution in the BSO:Eu and BSO:Sm crystals are considered an impressive achievement in the optimization of this scintillator which is already suitable for applications such as dual-readout calorimeters and homogeneous hadron calorimeters. |
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| Keywords: | BSO crystal Vertical Bridgeman method Scintillation characteristics Relative light yield Rare earths |
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