Optical photons

I am studying the propagation of optical photons through a CsI(pure)
detector crystal, for both high-energy photons and other particles (e.g.,
neutrons), to look at timing distributions as they go out the end.

A question. Is there a priority between Cherenkov production and
scintillation? In a test case, each process alone produces different
numbers of exiting optical photons. But if both processes are 'on,' the
results are the same as for scintillation alone. Both processes are
focussed on the 315-nm line, the maximum of the distribution.

Joe Comfort
Received on Tue May 01 2012 - 23:55:09 CEST