Calculation of ionization quenching correction factors in organic plastic scintillators.
Details, verifications, and background material given in
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Ionization quenching in scintillators used for dosimetry of mixed particle fields
DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/ab12f2
Linux (Tested on Ubuntu 16.04)
This version was tested with
- python3
- Cython 0.27 or newer
- GNU Make v. 4.1
Install e.g. with
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install cython
(Download e.g. with git clone https://github.com/jbrage/ExcitonQuenching
)
Compile the cython code used to solve the Blanc equation for a given ion and scintillator
cd ExcitonQuenching/EQ_cythonized_PDE && make
which creates the shared object evolveDensitiesCython.so.
Run an example where the BCF-12 scintillator is exposed to a helium ion at several energies:
python3 example.py