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Shallow Traps in Scintillation Materials

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Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators

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This chapter is focused on the shallow traps in scintillators with various crystal structures. Even in single crystals of scintillating materials, defects inevitably occur and play an important role in the excitation transfer phenomena. Special attention in this chapter is paid to the consequences of the modulation of the conduction band bottom due to random distribution of the ions in mixed crystals.

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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). Shallow Traps in Scintillation Materials. In: Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21966-6_4

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