When lead tungstate scintillating crystals are used as dense and fast radiat ors for γ ray detectors in high radiation environment in future high energy a c celerators such as LHC,the main problems are (1) radiation hardness is not yet s atisfactory,(2) light yield is low. When some impurities are removed from the raw materials,the origin of radiation damage is not related to the purity of the raw material but to structural defect s produced during the growth process.These defects result from the leakage of le ad ( V c(Pb)) and oxygen ( V o) and introduce local charge unbalance that ea sily traps electrons or holes and act as temporary color centers under irradiati on. So doping different ions to compensate charge and suppress the existing defe cts is necessary.
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