Abstract:Radioactive sources excite scintillators, causing them to
emit fluorescence, and are thus widely used in studies of the
performance of scintillators. Ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes
(LEDs) can also excite scintillators to produce fluorescence. In
this paper, the waveform characteristics of a UV LED-excited
scintillator detector are studied and compared with the
characteristics obtained when using a radioactive source. Test
results show that the trailing edge of the scintillation pulse
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