Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies

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.

Auteur
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. 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 in the 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.

Texte du rabat
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.

Contenu
Part 1 Fundamental Studies.- Fast Processes in Scintillators.- Transient phenomena in scintillation materials.- Fluctuations of Track Structure and energy Resolution of Scintillators.- New properties and prospects of Hot Intraband Luminescence for fast timing.- Part 2 Material Science.- Ceramic scintillation materials approaches, challenges and possibilities.- Disordered garnet structure scintillation materials for novel detectors of ionizing radiation.- Garnet crystal growth in non-precious metal crucibles.- Part 3 Technology and Production.- Towards new production technologies: 3D printing of scintillators.- Enriched 40Ca100MoO4 single crystalline material for search of neutrinoless double beta decay.- Plastic scintillators with the improved radiation hardness level.- Part 4 Detector Solutions.- Application of scintillation detectors in cosmic experiments.- Neutron cross section measurements with diamond detector.- Investigation of the properties of the heavy scintillating fibers for their potential use in hadron therapy monitoring.- Development of a submillimeter portable gamma-ray imaging detector, based on a GAGG:Ce - silicon photomultiplier array.- Application scintillation comparators for calibration low intense gamma radiation fields by dose rate in the range of 0.03 0.1 µSv/h.- Antineutrino Detectors.- Part 5 Instrumentation.- Development of the X-ray security screening systems at ADANI.- Optimization of physico-topological parameters of dual energy X-ray detectors applied in inspection equipment.- Control of organ and tissue doses to patients during Computed Tomograph.- Information Tool for Multifarious Scientific and Practical Research.- Calibration and performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter during the LHC Run II.- Study the applicability of neutron calibration facility for spectrometer calibration as a source of gamma rays with energies to 10 MeV.- Thermal neutron detector based on LaOBr:Ce/LiF.- Specifics of 3D-printed electronics.