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Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators

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Conductive semiconductor radiation detectors are successfully used in many applications. This chapter is focused on exploitation of semiconductors, especially wide-band-gap semiconductors, as scintillators. The semiconductor scintillators are prospective for fast radiation detectors. Attempts to use bulk and nanostructured semiconductor scintillators are reviewed. The prospective of using diamonds for fast timing applications is especially addressed.

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  1. Research Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus

    Mikhail Korzhik

  2. Semiconductor Physics Department, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Tamulaitis

  3. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey N. Vasil’ev

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Korzhik, M., Tamulaitis, G., Vasil’ev, A.N. (2020). Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductor Scintillators. In: Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21966-6_7

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