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SrI2(Eu)晶体scintillator的放射性污染

Radioactive contamination of SrI2(Eu) crystal scintillator

P. Belli, R. Bernabei, R. Cerulli, F. A. Danevich, E. Galenin, A. Gektin, A. Incicchitti, V. Isaienko, V. V. Kobychev, M. Laubenstein, S. S. Nagorny, R. B. Podv… 展开作者

P. Belli, R. Bernabei, R. Cerulli, F. A. Danevich, E. Galenin, A. Gektin, A. Incicchitti, V. Isaienko, V. V. Kobychev, M. Laubenstein, S. S. Nagorny, R. B. Podviyanuk, S. Tkachenko, V. I. Tretyak

摘要:

采用Stockbarger法生长了掺铕碘化锶(SrI 2(Eu))晶体。晶体进行了表征,包括相对光电子输出和能量分辨率的伽马量子。用SrI_2(Eu)晶体闪烁体在海平面上作闪烁体和在地下深处用超低本底HPGe γ能谱仪测试了该闪烁体的本征放射性。SrI 2(Eu)探测器对α粒子的响应(α/β比和脉冲形状)通过分析晶体的226 Ra内部痕量污染来估计。我们测量了:在E_α =7.7 MeV时,α/β =0.55,由α粒子和γ量子引起的闪烁脉冲的时间衰减没有差别。在T_1/2 \sim 10^{15}-10 ^{16} yr的灵敏度水平上,研究了所得结果在寻找~(84)Sr双电子俘获和电子俘获伴正电子发射中的应用。这些研究的结果表明,这种材料的各种闪烁应用,包括低水平计数实验的潜力。

英文摘要:

A strontium iodide crystal doped by europium (SrI2(Eu)) was produced by using the Stockbarger growth technique. The crystal was subjected to a characterization that includes relative photoelectron output and energy resolution for gamma quanta. The intrinsic radioactivity of the SrI2(Eu) crystal scintillator was tested both by using it as scintillator at sea level and by ultra-low background HPGe gamma spectrometry deep underground. The response of the SrI2(Eu) detector to alpha particles (alpha/beta ratio and pulse shape) was estimated by analysing the 226Ra internal trace contamination of the crystal. We have measured: alpha/beta=0.55 at E_alpha=7.7 MeV, and no difference in the time decay of the scintillation pulses induced by alpha particles and gamma quanta. The application of the obtained results in the search for the double electron capture and electron capture with positron emission in 84Sr has been investigated at a level of sensitivity: T_1/2 \sim 10^{15}-10^{16} yr. The results of these studies demonstrate the potentiality of this material for a variety of scintillation applications, including low-level counting experiments.

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