Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Fundamental Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Microtheory of Scintillation in Crystalline Materials

      • Andrey N. Vasil’ev

      Pages 3-34

   3. Fast Optical Phenomena in Self-Activated and Ce-Doped Materials Prospective for Fast Timing in Radiation Detectors

      • Gintautas Tamulaitis

      Pages 35-54

3. Material Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Lead Tungstate Scintillation Material Development for HEP Application

      • E. Auffray, M. Korzhik

      Pages 57-62

   3. Electronic and Optical Properties of Scintillators Based on Mixed Ionic Crystals

      • A. Belsky, A. Gektin, S. Gridin, Andrey N. Vasil’ev

      Pages 63-82

4. Technology and Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Raw Materials for Bulk Oxide Scintillators for Gamma-Rays, Charged Particles and Neutrons Detection

      • G. Dosovitskiy

      Pages 85-103

   3. Restart of the Production of High-Quality PbWO4 Crystals for Calorimetry Applications

      • V. Dormenev, K. -T. Brinkmann, R. W. Novotny, H. -G. Zaunick, J. Houzvicka, S. Ochesanu et al.

      Pages 104-113

   4. Development of YAG:Ce,Mg and YAGG:Ce Scintillation Fibers

      • V. Kononets, K. Lebbou, O. Sidletskiy, Yu. Zorenko, M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels et al.

      Pages 114-128

   5. Modification of Plastic Scintillator for Neutron Registration

      • P. Zhmurin

      Pages 129-149

   6. Skull Method—An Alternative Scintillation Crystals Growth Technique for Laboratory and Industrial Production

      • V. Taranyuk

      Pages 150-159

   7. MO–SiO2 and MO–SiO2–Gd2O3 (M = Ca, Ba) Scintillation Glasses

      • Y. Tratsiak, A. Fedorov, G. Dosovitskiy, F. Moretti, E. Trusova

      Pages 160-166

   8. Composite Scintillator

      • A. Yu. Boyarintsev, T. A. Nepokupnaya, Yu. D. Onufriyev, V. A. Tarasov

      Pages 167-194

   9. Crystalline and Composite Scintillators for Fast and Thermal Neutron Detection

      • Nikolai Z. Galunov, Natalya L. Karavaeva, Oleg A. Tarasenko

      Pages 195-208

5. Advanced Radiation Detectors and Detecting Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Scintillation Detectors in Experiments on High Energy Physics

      • B. A. Shwartz

      Pages 211-230

   3. Calorimeter Designs Based on Fibre-Shaped Scintillators

      • K. Pauwels, M. Lucchini, A. Benaglia, E. Auffray

      Pages 231-241

   4. Molybdate Cryogenic Scintillators for Rare Events Search Experiments

      • D. A. Spassky, V. V. Alenkov, O. A. Buzanov, V. N. Kornoukhov

      Pages 242-258

This volume provides a broad overview of the latest achievements in scintillator development, from theory to applications, and aiming for a deeper understanding of fundamental processes, as well as the discovery and availability of components for the production of new generations of scintillation materials. It includes papers on the microtheory of scintillation and the initial phase of luminescence development, applications of the various materials, and development and characterization of ionizing radiation detection equipment. The book also touches upon the increased demand for cryogenic scintillators, the renaissance of  garnet materials for scintillator applications, nano-structuring in scintillator development, development and applications for security, and exploration of hydrocarbons and ecological monitoring.

• Scintillation
• Crystal Growth
• Detection of Ionizing Radiation
• Ionizing Radiation
• Radiation Monitoring
• High Energy Physics

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

  Mikhail Korzhik

• Institute for Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Kharkov, 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 the Higgs boson. Heis 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 in the study offundamental 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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