Sound and light from fractures in scintillators.

نویسندگان

  • A Tantot
  • S Santucci
  • O Ramos
  • S Deschanel
  • M-A Verdier
  • E Mony
  • Y Wei
  • S Ciliberto
  • L Vanel
  • P C F Di Stefano
چکیده

Prompted by intriguing events observed in certain particle-physics searches for rare events, we study light and acoustic emission simultaneously in some inorganic scintillators subject to mechanical stress. We observe mechanoluminescence in Bi4Ge3O12, CdWO4, and ZnWO4, in various mechanical configurations at room temperature and ambient pressure. We analyze the temporal and amplitude correlations between the light emission and the acoustic emission during fracture. A novel application of the precise energy calibration of Bi4Ge3O12 provided by radioactive sources allows us to deduce that the fraction of elastic energy converted to light is at least 3×10(-5).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 111 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013