Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Fundamental Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fast Processes in Scintillators

      • Andrei N. Vasil’ev

      Pages 3-17

   3. Transient Phenomena in Scintillation Materials

      • G. Tamulaitis, S. Nargelas, A. Vaitkevičius, M. Lucchini, E. Auffray, A. Fedorov et al.

      Pages 19-28

   4. Fluctuations of Track Structure and Energy Resolution of Scintillators

      • A. Gektin, Andrei N. Vasil’ev

      Pages 29-39

   5. New Properties and Prospects of Hot Intraband Luminescence for Fast timing

      • Sergey I. Omelkov, Vitali Nagirnyi, Marco Kirm

      Pages 41-53

3. Material Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Ceramic Scintillation Materials—Approaches, Challenges and Possibilities

      • P. V. Karpyuk, G. A. Dosovitskiy, D. E. Kuznetsova, E. V. Gordienko, A. A. Fedorov, V. A. Mechinsky et al.

      Pages 57-74

   3. Scintillation Materials with Disordered Garnet Structure for Novel Scintillation Detectors

      • Y. U. Tratsiak, T. Anniyev, D. Agrawal, M. Vasilyev, V. Khabashesku

      Pages 75-81

   4. Garnet Crystal Growth in Non-precious Metal Crucibles

      • O. Sidletskiy, P. Arhipov, S. Tkachenko, Ia. Gerasymov, D. Kurtsev, V. Jarý et al.

      Pages 83-95

4. Technology and Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Towards New Production Technologies: 3D Printing of Scintillators

      • P. S. Sokolov, G. A. Dosovitskiy, A. E. Dosovitskiy, M. V. Korjik

      Pages 99-112

   3. Enriched 40Ca100MoO4 Single Crystalline Material for Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

      • A. Alenkov, O. Buzanov, A. Dosovitskii, V. Kazalov, V. Kornoukhov, A. Mikhlin

      Pages 113-124

   4. Plastic Scintillators with the Improved Radiation Hardness Level

      • P. N. Zhmurin, Yu A. Gurkalenko, V. N. Pereymak, D. A. Eliseev, O. V. Eliseeva

      Pages 125-145

   5. State of the Art of Scintillation Crystal Growth Methods

      • V. Taranyuk

      Pages 147-161

5. Detector Solutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Application of Scintillation Detectors in Cosmic Experiments

      • A. F. Iyudin, S. I. Svertilov

      Pages 165-185

   3. Neutron Cross Section Measurements with Diamond Detectors

      • E. Griesmayer, P. Kavrigin, C. Weiss

      Pages 187-193

   4. Investigation of the Properties of the Heavy Scintillating Fibers for Their Potential Use in Hadron Therapy Monitoring

      • K. Rusiecka, J. Kasper, A. Magiera, A. Stahl, A. Wrońska

      Pages 195-210

   5. Development of a Submillimeter Portable Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector, Based on a GAGG:Ce—Silicon Photomultiplier Array

      • S. David, I. Kandarakis

      Pages 211-219

       This proceedings book presents dual approaches to examining new theoretical models and their applicability in the search for new scintillation materials and, ultimately, the development of industrial technologies. The ISMART conferences bring together the radiation detector community, from fundamental research scientists to applied physics experts, engineers, and experts on the implementation of advanced solutions. This scientific forum builds a bridge between the different parts of the community and is the basis for multidisciplinary, cooperative research and development efforts. The main goals of the conference series are to review the latest results in scintillator development, from theory to applications, and to arrive at a deeper understanding of fundamental processes, as well as to discover components for the production of new generations of scintillation materials.
 
       The book highlights recent findings and hypotheses, key advances, as well as exotic detector designs and solutions, and includes papers on the microtheory of scintillation and the initial phase of luminescence development, applications of the various materials, as well as the development and characterization of ionizing radiation detection equipment. It also touches on the increased demand for cryogenic scintillators, the renaissance of garnet materials for scintillator applications, nano-structuring in scintillator development, trends in and applications for security, and exploration of hydrocarbons and ecological monitoring.

• Scintillator detectors
• Crystal Growth
• Conference Proceedings
• Ionizing radiation detector
• fast photoluminescence
• gamma ray detection

• Research Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus

  Mikhail Korzhik

• Institute for Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

  Alexander Gektin

Mikhail Korzhik (Korjik) received his diploma in Physics at the Belarus State University in 1981. He got his PhD in 1991 and Doctoral Diploma in 2005 in Nuclear Physics and Optics. Since the beginning of nineties he was deeply involved in research and development of inorganic scintillation materials. He was instrumental in the development of the YAlO₃:Ce technology for low energy gamma-rays detection. An important achievement has been the discovery of  Pr³⁺ doped scintillation media and GdAlO₃:Ce and LuAlO₃:Ce scintillation materials. His study promoted the understanding of scintillation mechanism in many crystals. He took part in the discovery and mass production technology development of the lead tungstate PbWO₄ scintillation crystal for high energy physics application, which resulted in the use of this crystal in two ambitious experiments at LHC, CMS and ALICE and an important contribution to the discovery of theHiggs boson. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the SCINT cycle of International Conferences dedicated to scintillation materials development.

Alexander Gektin received his diploma after graduating at the Physical faculty of Kharkov university. His PhD thesis (1981) was devoted to defects study in halide crystals. He got his DrSci degree in 1990 (Riga, Latvia) when he investigated the influence of high irradiation doses to crystals. During the last two decades he took part as a renowned scintillation material scientist to several international projects like BELLE, BaBar, PiBeta, CMS in high energy physics, GLAST and AGILLE in astrophysics. At the same time he has led several developments for medical imaging (large area SPECT scintillator) and security systems (600 mm long position sensitive detectors).The major part of these technology developments was transferred to different industrial production lines. At the same time he is known as an expert inthe study of fundamental processes of energy absorption, relaxation and light emission in scintillation materials. He has authored more then 250 publications. He is also an Associated Editor of IEEE Transaction of Nuclear Sciences.

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