Bourret, Edith D.; Smiadak, David M.; Borade, Ramesh B.; Ma, Yunfeng; Bizarri, Gregory; Weber, Marv J.; Derenzo, Stephen E.
(Elsevier, 2018-05-25)
A screening of 63 metal-tantalate-oxides was conducted in search of heavy scintillator materials operating at ambient temperature. While tantalates are known to have slow scintillation decay times, the high atomic number ...