New scintillation materials and scintiblocs for neutron and γ-rays registration

Abstract

This paper is a short review of some new scintillation materials, scintillation detectors and scintillation systems for registration of gamma-rays, X-rays, neutrons and neutrinos, which have been developed on the level of inventions and a new fundamental level in the Ural State Technical University-UPI (Ekaterinburg, Russia) and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents (Université Lyon 1, France). The part of Russian patents for this area are presented: some most important new scintillation materials (on the base of lithium hydride, silicate compounds, compounds on the base of aluminates, compounds on the base of fluorides and oxyfluorides, compounds on the base of oxides and oxides crystals, glasses and transparent ceramics) and new scintillation devices (on the base of HgI2, on the base of LiKSO4, sandwich-detectors (organic–inorganic–glass–fiber materials), combine detectors, detectors with photodiodes registration and spectrum shifter, surface scintillation structures and screens, and fiber scintillation devices).