A method to measure the quenching factor for recoil energy of oxygen in bismuth germanium oxide scintillators

Yuga Ommura, Hiroshi Ito, Takatomi Yano +2

Bismuth germanium oxide ($\mathrm{B}{\mathrm{i}}_4\mathrm{G}{\mathrm{e}}_3{\mathrm{O}}_{12}$, BGO) scintillation crystals are widely used as detectors in the fields of particle physics and astrophysics due to their high d…