The scintillating material is thus a part of a detection chain.
The wide variety of applications in which they are used lead to different
performance requirements. Below are listed, sorted more or less by
importance, the main characteristics often specified. Their impact
on the whole detection chain’s performance is also discussed.
The scintillation time response corresponds to the time distribution
of the light pulse resulting from the interaction between the ionizing
particle and the scintillator. A number is often assigned to that
characteristic in the data sheet. It corresponds most of the time
to the so-called decay time
τ
when it can be expressed as:
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