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Garnet Crystal Growth in Non-precious Metal Crucibles

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Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies (ISMART 2018)

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The work is motivated by the need for cheap garnet-based scintillators for new high energy physics experiments at colliders and medical equipment. During recent years, garnets became among the most studied scintillators due to a drastic enhancement of light yield achieved in (Lu,Y,Gd)3(Al,Ga)5O12:Ce multicomponent systems. Meanwhile, the production process of YAG- and LuAG-based crystals is easier and less expensive compared to the multicomponent garnets. This work addresses the preparation process and the optical and scintillation properties of YAG, YAG:Ce crystals grown in non-precious metal crucibles.

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Acknowledgements

The work was performed in the frame of Crystal Clear Collaboration and is supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research, Innovation Staff Exchange Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 No. 644260 “INTELUM”. Authors are grateful to COST Action TD1401 “Fast Advanced Scintillator Timing (FAST)” for support of collaboration. Partial support of bilateral mobility project “Scintillation mechanisms in garnet- and perovskite-type crystals fabricated under different conditions” between Academies of Sciences of Ukraine and Czech Republic, and Czech Science Foundation No. 16-15569S project is also acknowledged.

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  1. Institute for Scintillation Materials NAS of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    O. Sidletskiy, P. Arhipov, S. Tkachenko, Ia. Gerasymov & D. Kurtsev

  2. Institute of Physics AS of Czech Republic, 162 00, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    V. Jarý, R. Kučerková & M. Nikl

  3. Institute of Light and Matter, UMR55306 University Claude Bernard Lyon 1-CNRS, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    K. Lebbou

  4. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    E. Auffray

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Sidletskiy, O. et al. (2019). Garnet Crystal Growth in Non-precious Metal Crucibles. In: Korzhik, M., Gektin, A. (eds) Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies. ISMART 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21970-3_7

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