Effect of shallow traps on scintillation

The paper establishes the mathematical connection between the process of scintillation in Ce-doped materials and their thermoluminescence. A set of kinetic equations describes the competing processes of radiative recombination and trapping by a single trap. The more general case of second-order kinetics is simplified to first order, allowing an analytic solution. Second-order kinetics is also solved numerically without such simplification and both are successfully applied to explain the temperature dependence of the scintillation light output on temperature, in the range where glow peaks occur. The order of the kinetics predicts rather different shapes of decay, but are difficult to distinguish experimentally. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.