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Title: Relationship between microstructure and efficiency of lithium silicate scintillating glasses: The effect of alkaline earths

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OSTI ID:100322

Lithium silicate glasses containing Ce{sup 3+} are known to be scintillators. Glasses in this family in which the Li is enriched ({sup 6}Li) are used as neutron detectors. The addition of Mg to this glass is known to increase the scintillation efficiency. We have found that substituting other alkaline earths results in a monotonic decrease of the scintillation efficiency with increasing atomic number. The total variation in scintillation efficiency from Mg to Ba is nearly a factor of 3. Prior experiments with this glass family show small differences in Raman and fluorescence spectra; evidence from thermoluminescence experiments indicates that the scintillation efficiency is most strongly correlated with structural effects in the neighborhood of the Ce{sup 3+} activator ion. The results of low-temperature studies of fluorescence and thermoluminescence of these glasses will be reported.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
100322
Report Number(s):
PNL-SA-25396; CONF-9505249-8; ON: DE95016812
Resource Relation:
Conference: 97. American Ceramic Society (ACS) annual meeting and exposition, Cincinnati, OH (United States), 1-4 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: May 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English