ExcitonQuenching

Calculation of ionization quenching correction factors in organic plastic scintillators.

Details, verifications, and background material given in

• Christensen JB and Andersen CE (2018) Phys. Med. Biol. 63 195010
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aadf2d

• Christensen JB and Andersen CE (2019) Rad. Meas. 124 158–162
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2019.01.003

• Christensen JB et al. (2019) Phys. Med. Biol. 64 095018
  Ionization quenching in scintillators used for dosimetry of mixed particle fields
  DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/ab12f2

Installation

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.

Example

Run an example where the BCF-12 scintillator is exposed to a helium ion at several energies:

python3 example.py