Scintillation Characterization of Doped Cesium Hafnium Chloride
(Conference Presentation)

Emmanuel Rowe; Brandon Goodwin; Pijush Bhattacharya; Arnold Burger; Ashley Stowe; Nerine Cherepy; Steve Payne

doi:10.1117/12.2238318

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2 November 2016 Scintillation Characterization of Doped Cesium Hafnium Chloride (Conference Presentation)

Emmanuel Rowe, Brandon Goodwin, Pijush Bhattacharya, Arnold Burger, Ashley Stowe, Nerine Cherepy, Steve Payne

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Proceedings Volume 9968, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XVIII; 996804 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238318
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The scintillators currently providing the best energy resolution lower than 2.6% at 662 keV and sizes larger than 1 in. dia. 1 in. height are LaBr3(Ce) and SrI2(Eu). Despite energy resolution and decay time performance of LaBr3(Ce), the intrinsic radioactivity, due to naturally occurring 138La isotope in the matrix is a limitation for low count rate applications such as radioisotope identification of weak sources. Cesium Hafnium Chloride (CHC) is a high effective atomic number (Zeff=58) moderate density (3.86 g/cm3) scintillator for gamma spectroscopy, offering a cubic crystal structure, no intrinsic radioactivity, and highly proportional light yield, without intentional doping. CHC boasts a cubic crystal structure that is isostructural to K2HfCl6 and analogous to calcium fluoride with cesium ions in the fluorine ion position and the [HfCl6]2- octahedral replacing calcium ions. The scintillation of CHC is centered at 400 nm, with a principal decay time of 4.37 s, a light yield of up to 54,000 photons/MeV and energy resolution of 3.3% at 662 keV and we report on the effects of doping on the scintillation properties of CHC.

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Emmanuel Rowe, Brandon Goodwin, Pijush Bhattacharya, Arnold Burger, Ashley Stowe, Nerine Cherepy, and Steve Payne "Scintillation Characterization of Doped Cesium Hafnium Chloride (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9968, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XVIII, 996804 (2 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238318

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