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Development of Excited Region of the Track. Rise and Decay Kinetics of Scintillation

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In this chapter, we discuss the concept of the electronic excitations created by ionizing particles in solids, their transformation, interaction, and temporal evolution. This evolution is analyzed for different types of scintillators: self-activated, cross-luminescent and crystals with activators. The formation of excited region in the track of an ionizing particle is especially addressed. The rise and decay kinetics of scintillation is analyzed in terms of the spatial distribution of electronic excitations in crystals with different scintillation origin.

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    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). Development of Excited Region of the Track. Rise and Decay Kinetics of Scintillation. In: Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21966-6_3

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