Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies

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.

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.