Abstract

AbstractThe limitation of energy resolution of scintillation detectors are discussed with a special emphasis on non-proportionality response of scintillators to gamma rays and electrons, which is of crucial importance to an intrinsic energy resolution of the crystals. Examples of the study carried out with different crystals and particularly those of tests of undoped NaI and CsI at liquid nitrogen temperature with the light readout by avalanche photodiodes are presented suggesting strongly that the non-proportionality of the halide crystals are not their intrinsic property. Moreover, the influence of slow components of the light pulses on energy resolution and non-proportionality are discussed.

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