Investigation of the Scintillation Properties of Domestic BaF2(La) Crystal

BaF₂(La) crystal has been grown with 1% mole of BaF₃ doped in BaF₂ and the scintillation properties of the new crystal have been investigated before and after a γ irradiation of ⁶⁰Co source.The radiation resistance of the domestic crystal can be up to a dose of 10⁶ rad.Comparing with a pure BaF₂ scintillator,it was found that the fast component of the BaF₂(La) scintillator was almost no change but its slow component was suppressed to a factor of 4.     

BaF2 Scintillator Coupling with a Low-pressure Multistep Avalanche Chamber

We studied the properties of a UV light sensitive low-pressure multistep avalanche chamber containing pure TMAE vapour.The gain of two chambers with different constructure at various temperatures is measured.With pure TMAE vapour at 40°C the gain of one chamber was 4×10⁵,the time resolution was 4.1ns.Coupling the chamber with a 2×2×2.4cm³ BaF₂ scintillator we successfully observed the signal of ¹³⁷Cs γ-ray of 0.661MeV.     

Fluorescence Properties of Ce+3-doped BaF2

The spectra and decay times of a serious of Ce⁺³—doped BaF₂ crystals have been determined.The results demonstrate that a BaF₂ crystal with a proper amount of Ce⁺³ doped have some outstanding advantages:a near-blue fluorescence with quite fast decay time (80ns) replaces the slow component (600ns) and vary fast one (～0.8ns) of undoped BaF₂.The intensity of the new component is comparable with the sum of the old ones.     

Irradiation Effect in C60 Films Induced By Low Energy Ions

Irradiation effecs, mainly including transformation from crystalline into amorphous state, of C₆₀, films induced by 120keV H, Ar and Fe ions irradiation were analysed by means of Raman scattering technique. The results indicate that amorphization process in the cases of Ar and Fe ions irradiation is dominated by nuclear collision, but in the case of H ion irradiation, the process is dominated by electronic energy transfer. The annealing effect of electronic energy loss which induced the intermediate graphitization process before amorphization in lower irradiation dose ranging from 2×10¹⁴ ions/cm² to 5×10¹⁶ ions/cm² was found in the case of H ion irradiation for the first bine.     

A Limit of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of 48Ca

A search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of ⁴⁸Ca is carried out in a coal mine which is located 512m underground near Beijing.Large scintillation crystals of natural CaF₂ were used as both the detector and the double beta decay source.Result obtained after a total of 7588.5 hours of data taking gives 1.1×10²² years (68%C.L.) as the lower limit of the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay of ⁶⁸Ca.     

Nanosecond UV laser damage and ablation from fluoride crystals polished by different techniques

Ablation thresholds and damage behavior of cleaved and polished surfaces of CaF₂, BaF₂, LiF and MgF₂ subjected to single-shot irradiation with 248 nm/14 ns laser pulses have been investigated using the photoacoustic mirage technique and scanning electron microscopy. For CaF₂, standard polishing yields an ablation threshold of typically 20 J/cm². When the surface is polished chemo-mechanically, the threshold can be raised to 43 J/cm², while polishing by diamond turning leads to intermediate values around 30 J/cm². Cleaved surfaces possess no well-defined damage threshold. When comparing different fluoride surfaces prepared by diamond turning it is found that the damage resistivity roughly scales with the band gap. We find an ablation threshold of 40 J/cm² for diamond turned LiF while the MgF₂ surface can withstand a fluence of more than 60 J/cm² without damage. The damage topography of conventionally polished surfaces shows flaky ablation across the laser-heated area with cracks along the cleavage planes. No ablation is observed in the case of chemo- mechanical polishing; only a few cracks appear. Diamond turned surfaces show small optical absorption but mostly cracks and ablation of flakes and, in some cases, severe damage in the form of craters larger than the irradiated area. The origin of such different damage behavior is discussed.     

Photoluminescence Study of He ions hot-implanted Sapphire After 208Pb27+ of 230MeV Irradiation

In the present work the photoluminescence (PL)character of sapphire implanted with He ions and subsequently irradiated with ²⁰⁸Pb²⁷⁺ of 1.1MeV/u was studied. Sapphire single crystals were implanted with 110keV He ions at 600K temperature to fluences ranging from (0.5 to 2)×10¹⁷ ions/cm², some of them were subsequently irradiated with ²⁰⁸ Pb²⁷⁺.From experimental results we found PL spectra peaks at 375nm, 413nm, and 450nm, and it's intensity gets maximum at fluence of 5×10¹⁶ He ions/cm². Also we found a new peak at 390nm after subsequent ²⁰⁸ Pb²⁷⁺ irradiation, which is possibly due to the crystallized sediment containing nano crystal Al₂O₃ appeared on the sample surface.     

Synthesis of C26 Crystallite Polyethylene by C2+ Ion Bombardment

A new form solid Carbon has been synthesized consisting of a hexagonal close packing of a26 molecules under energetic C₂₆ ion 2.4 MeV bombardment of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. The beam current was about 150 mA and the total dose was 1×10¹⁶ ions cm^－2. The residual gas pressure in the irradiation chamber was 1.3×10^－4Pa during bombardment High-resolu-tion transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and time-of-flight mass spectroscopy studies of the molecular packing confirm that the C₂₆ molecules have the Caged fullerene structure.     

Observation of Heavy Cluster Emission From Radioactive 230U Nuclei

230Pa was produced with the reaction ²³²TH (p, 3n)230Pa in the irradiation powder targets of ThO₂ with 35 MeV Proton beam. Sources of ²³⁰Pa -²³⁰U were prepared by radiochemical method. Using solid-state track registration detectors, two events of ²³⁰U decay with heavy cluster emission have been observed. The preliminary branching ratio to decay comes out to be B=λ_Ne/λ_α=(1.3±1.8)×10^－14.     

Study on Irradiation Damage of Bi-Doped PbWO4 Crystal

The luminescence and point defects of pure lead tungstate crystals (PbWO₄) and Bismuth (Bi) doping crystal (PbWO₄:Bi)grown by modified Bridgman method are studied. It is found that irradiation results in the great change of the transmission and X-ray excited emission after γ-ray irradiation about 4 Mrad dose. The defects in PbWO₄ crystal have been studied by means of positron annihilation lifetime and X-ray photoelectron spectra. The results show that Bi dopant suppresses the concentrations of positron capture centers and low-valent oxygen ions.After γ-ray irradiation,in the pure crystal the concentration of lead vacancy (V_Pb) is decreased and that of low-valent oxygen increased; on the contrary,in Bi dopant crystal the concentrations of positron capture centers increased and that of low-valent oxygen ions suppressed. It is tentatively proposed that Bi³⁺ dopants would mainly occupy the sites of lead vacancies resulted from Pb volatilization. And irradiation changes the chemical valence of Bi element,which is Bi³⁺→Bi⁵⁺.The Bi⁵⁺ will replace the lattice W⁶⁺ ions and it will cause some (WO₄)^2－ replaced by (BiO₃+V_O)^－.     

BaF2 Used for Particle Identification in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Raactions

A detector telescope consisting of a BaF₂ crystal and Si detectors is used to measure forwardly emitted products in ¹²C(46.7MeV/u)induced heavy ion reactions,both ΔE-E method and fast-slow correlation method are adopted in the particle identification.The response of BaF₂ to various incident ions has been studied.     

The Study of Primary Cosmic Ray Mass Composition Around the

The lg N_e-N_μ relationship has been studied from 4.4×10⁴ events (total observation time is 2.9×10⁶s)collected from Mt. Liang Wang Array (24.5°N, 102.9°E, 2720m above sea level). In order to study the mass composition at the knee, Monte-Carlo simulations for the EAS development and detection under same event selection criteria as used in the experimental data have been performed. The result shows that the mass composition of primary cosmic rays has no obvious change and the dominant component is light nuclei around the knee.     

Influence of Gamma-Ray Irradiation on Absorption and Fluorescent Spectra of Nd：YAG and Yb：YAG Laser Crystals

We investigate the influence of gamma-ray irradiation on the absorption and fluorescent spectra of Nd^3＋：Y3A15 O12 （Nd： YAG） and Yb^3＋ ： Y3A15 O12 （Yb： YAG） crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Two additional absorption （AA） bands induced by gamma-ray irradiation appear at 255nm and 340nm. The former is contributed due to Fe^3＋ impurity, the latter is due to Fe^2＋ ions and F-type colour centres. The intensity of the excitation and emission spectra as well as the fluorescent lifetime of Nd：YAG crystal decrease after the irradiation of 100 Mrad gamma-ray. In contrast, the same dose irradiation does not impair the fluorescent properties of Yb：YAG crystal. These results indicate that Yb： YA G crystal possesses the advantage over Nd： YA G crystal that has better reliability for applications in harsh radiant environment.     

Study on Background Radiation at Beijing Electron Positron Collider and Radiation Damage of High-Z Scintillation Crystals

A systematic study of radiation backgrounds in the interaction region at the Beijing e⁺e^－ Collider BEPC is carried out for the first time to the needs of particle physics experiment.An effective method to study dynamically the radiation environment of the collider is successfully developed which allows the measurement of the instantaneous radiation dose rate and is distribution for different beam conditions and as a function of time during a quiet luminosity run.The radiation sensitivity of domestic BGO and BaF₂ crystals in the BEPC environment is examined.     

Sb2O3掺杂对提高PbWO4晶体光学及闪烁性能的作用

采用改进的布里奇曼（Ｂｒｉｄｇｍａｎ）法生长了掺杂Ｓｂ２Ｏ３的ＰｂＷＯ４晶体。基于透射光谱、紫外激发及其发射谱、Ｘ射线激发的发射谱、光输出和辐照损伤待方面的测试,讨论了Ｓｂ２Ｏ３掺杂对提高ＰｂＷＯ４晶体光学及闪烁性能的作用。     

Energy resolution of CsI(Na) scintillators

The presented paper on CsI(Na) scintillators is a continuation of systematical studies of alkali halide crystals exhibiting more than one exponential decay time. The CsI(Na) crystals are known to have short (～550 ns) and long (few microseconds) components in the scintillation pulse. Previous studies showed that integration of slow components of the light pulse improved the light output, non-proportionality and energy resolution of CsI(Tl), NaI(Tl) in lower temperatures and undoped NaI crystal at liquid nitrogen temperature. In this work, an influence of the shaping time in the spectroscopy amplifier on the light output, non-proportional response to γ-rays, and energy resolution of two different size CsI(Na) scintillators is examined. Each crystal was coupled to the Photonis XP5212 PMT with a photocathode blue sensitivity of 12.2 μA/l mF. The data analysis showed improved proportionality of the crystal response, higher number of photoelectrons/MeV-γ, and consequently, a better overall energy resolution obtained for 12 μs shaping time constant. Finally, the CsI(Na) characteristics are compared to that obtained previously for NaI(Tl).     

STUDY OF THE TIMING PERFORMANCE OF A LARGE AREA PLASTIC SCINTILLATION COUNTER FOR TOF MEASUREMENT

A large area plastic scintillation counter (80×10×1cm²) for TOF measurement has been made and the timing performance of this system has been measured. Various effects on the timing performance have been studied.     

基于双掺杂LiNbO3晶体的波分解复用器特性研究

为了进一步扩充光纤的通信容量，采用了一种利用体全息技术制作波分复用器件的新方法，使其对多波长光能够有效分离，并且对其一些特性进行了研究。在(10×10×10)mm³的双掺杂铌酸锂（掺Fe,Zn）晶体中写入多重体全息光栅，使其对相同方向入射的多波长光进行有效的分离，并且通过理论和实验相结合的方法，对在双掺杂铌酸锂晶体中的波分解复用的一些特性进行研究。实验结果很好地证明了上述方法的可行性，实现了多通道波长解复用，并且得到其一些优点。     

氯化聚乙烯辐射效应的NMR研究

用¹H NMR,¹³C NMR谱,二维谱,FT-IR等方法研究了氯化聚乙烯（CPE）在室温下限量空气中经⁶⁰Co γ射线辐照后的辐照效应. 结果表明CPE在辐照过程中以发生裂解反应为主,在裂解反应过程中伴随着HCl脱出,HCl的脱出量随着辐照剂量的增加而增加. 辐照后CPE样品的大分子结构发生相应变化,序列结构为CH₂CHClCHClCH₂CHCl,CH₂CH₂CHClCH₂CH₂,CHClCH₂CHClCH₂CH₂,CHClCH₂CHClCH₂CHCl的单元数量减少,但没有形成新的序列结构类型,T₁ 和T₂值给出了有关辐照前后分子运动变化的信息.     

New radiation resistant scintillator LFS-3 for electromagnetic calorimeters

The results of the study of optical and luminescence characteristics of new LFS-3 heavy scintillation crystals are presented. Advantages of these crystals in comparison with conventional scintillators are discussed. The radiation resistance of LFS-3 scintillation crystals is studied using an intense ⁶⁰Co radioactive source and a proton beam with an energy of 155 MeV. No changes in the optical transmission of LFS-3 crystals after their irradiation with a dose of 23 Mrad are detected.