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.

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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.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Acknowledgements.- Part 1 Fundamental Studies.- Microtheory of Scintillation in Crystalline Materials.- Fast Optical Phenomena in Self-activated and Ce-doped Materials Prospective for Fast Timing in Radiation Detectors.- Part 2 Material Science.- Crystal Clear Collaboration: 30 Years on the Development of the Scintillation Materials.- Nano-crystalline and Nano-composite Scintillators for Fast Timing.- Mixed Crystals - a Tool to Improve Scintillators Performance. Current Stats and Prospects.- Part 3 Technology and Production.- Raw Materials for Novel Complex Oxide Scintillators Development and Production.- Growth of Garnet and Perovskite Scintillator Crystals with Non-isovalent Minor Components and Related Effects.- Restart of PWO Production for HEP.- Engineering of YAG-based Scintillators.- Scintillation Crystals Growth Methods for Laboratory Research and Industrial Production.- Optical and Scintillation Properties of Ce-doped Glasses Obtained in the MO-SiO2 (M=Ca, Ba) System.-Composte Scintillation Elements.- Increasing the Radiation Resistance Threshold of the Plastic and Composite Scintillators.- Nanostructured Organosiliconluminophores as Effective and Fast Spectral Shifters in a Wide Spectral Region.- Part 4 Advanced Radiation Detectors and Detecting Systems.- Scintillation Detectors in Experiments on High Energy Physics.- Novel Designs of the Detecting Modules for High Luminosity LHC and FCC.- Energy Losses and Calorimetry with Oriented Crystals.- Scintillating Spectrometer for Long-term Study of theSsea Level Gamma-ray Background Variations Caused by Changes of Concentration of Radioactive Isotopes and Particle Acceleration During Thunderstorms.- Radiation Hard Electronics for Hadron Collider Experiments. LHC Experience and Projects for HL LHC.- Part 5 Instrumentation and Applications.- Demand for a New Instrumentation for Well Logging.- Portal Monitoring Devices.- New Developments of Radiation Monitoring Equipment on the Basis of Scintillation Detectors.- Glossary.- Index.****