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Release of Ionizing Radiation Energy in Inorganic Scintillator

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Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators

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This chapter introduces the basic definitions and describes the energy release in the interaction of scintillation material with different kinds of ionizing radiation. The timing property of the energy deposition is under especial focus.

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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). Release of Ionizing Radiation Energy in Inorganic Scintillator. In: Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21966-6_1

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