the experimental protocol for measuring the light output for a gamma scintillation detector
Scintillation detectors work when the absorbed photons or particles by the material of the detector and excited to luminescence
Note that typical collection efficiency of scintaillation light is often quite low ~ 40..60%, especially in narrow scintillators. Special effort and geometry required to improve it.To estimate amount of light in the photopek of some gamma line one needs detector with known PDE ( photon detection efficiency) and single photoelectron charge. The calibration is usually obtained by other purely optical methods.
In many cases, one can get a at least rough estimation of photoelectric corresponding to the photopeak as the photopeak width often mostly defined by photolectron statistics and relative sigma of the peak width is ~ 1/N^0.5.
Dear Mohamed Fares ,
I may have misunderstood your question,
but in addition to Hadi's and Nikolay's answers I would like to add, that in scintillation x-ray/gamma detectors the conversion from the optical signal to electrical signals is done via PMTs or SiPMs.
But according to your 'expertise and skills' I think, you know that already.
So you may in more detail specify what do you mean by 'experimental protocol for measuring the light output';
e.g. how to characterize the optical output of the scintillator in terms of a) spectrum and b) life time (in oder to choose the right 'optical detector' and appropriate electronics) ?
You may find this paper useful: JTM de Hasas and P Dorenbos, "Advances in yield calibration of scintillators", IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, 55(3), 1086-1092, 2008.
thank you sir on the article which helps me and gives good information on my quistion
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