ASET Colloquium
A Decade of Lanthanum Bromide (LaBr3:Ce) Detectors
by Prof. Indranil Mazumdar (DNAP, TIFR)
Friday, October 16, 2015
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at AG-66
at AG-66
Description |
Much of the progress in low and medium energy nuclear physics has been intertwined with inorganic scintillator detectors. Notable among them are the NaI(Tl), BaF2, CsI(Na), BGO etc. All of these detectors have their own strengths and deficiencies in terms of detection efficiency, energy and timing resolutions, stability and ease of production. The long desire of gamma-ray spectroscopists to have a scintillator with all the good qualities, coupled with the sustained efforts of crystal growers, have resulted in the emergence of the Lanthanum Halide detectors, namely, LaBr3:Ce and LaCl3:Ce. The highly attractive properties of the Lanthanum Halide detectors, vis-a-vis, other existing scintillators, have generated much activity and expectation. In this talk I shall review the present global status of research with Lanthanum Bromide detectors and our own activities in this field of research. Primarily, it is going to be storytelling, the story of a beautiful scintillator, efforts to tame it to adapt to different experimental requirements, and occasional ecstasies having achieved that. |
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Organised by | Dr. Satyanarayana Bheesette |
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