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DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.166400
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ZnWO4 scintillators ; Crystal scintillators development; Luminescence under X-ray excitation; Optical transmission; Scintillation response
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- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [N121031700314-5]
- National Research Foundation of Ukraine [2020.02/0011]
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Zinc tungstate (ZnWO4) crystal scintillators are promising detection materials for experiments in search of double beta decay, dark matter, and rare alpha decays. Through an extended R&D process, high-quality ZnWO4 crystal scintillators have been developed, and their optical and scintillation properties have been studied in detail.
Zinc tungstate (ZnWO4 ) crystal scintillators are promising detection material for the experiments searching for double beta decay, dark matter, and investigating rare alpha decays. An extended R & D was performed to develop advanced quality ZnWO4 crystal scintillators. The R & D programme included the selection of the initial materials, the variation of the compound stoichiometry, the application of single and double crystallization, and the annealing of the crystal boules. The optical transmittance of the produced boules was measured, and the luminescence under X-ray excitation in the temperature region from 85 K to room temperature was studied (thermally stimulated luminescence was measured till 350 K). The energy resolution and the relative scintillation pulse amplitude were measured with gamma-sources demonstrating high scintillation properties of the samples produced by single crystallization from deeply purified zinc and tungsten oxides, with stoichiometric composition, annealed in air atmosphere.
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