Publications

“Review on photonic crystal coatings for scintillators”
A. Knapitsch, P. Lecoq,
International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 29 (2014) 1430070 (31 pages)

“Influence of Depth of Interaction upon the Performance of Scintillator Detectors”
M. S. Brown, S. Gundacker, A. Taylor, C. Tummeltshammer, E. Auffray, P. lecoq, and I. Papakonstatinou,
PLos ONE, vol. 9,no. 5, 2014. e98177

“Photoluminescence and excited states dynamics in PbWO4:Pr3+ crystals”
E. Auffray, M. Korjik, T. Shalapska, S. Zazubovich
Journal of Luminescence, Volume 154, October 2014, Pages 381-386

“Development of EndoTOFPET-US, a multi-modal endoscope for ultra-sound and time of flight positron emission tomography.”
M. Pizzichemi,
2014 Journal of Instrumentation 9 02 C02002.

“Development of ClearPEM-Sonic, a multimodal mammography system for PET and Ultrasound.”
G Cucciati, E Auffray, R Bugalho, L Cao, N Di Vara, F Farina, N Felix, B Frisch, A. Ghezzi, V Juhan, D Jun, P Lasaygues, P Lecoq, S Mensah, O Mundler, J Neves, M. Paganoni, J Peter, M Pizzichemi, P Siles, JC Silva, R Silva, S Tavernier, L Tessonnier,J Varela,
2014 Journal of Instrumentation 9 (03), C03008

“Ce-doped LuAG single-crystal fibers grown from the melt for high-energy physics”
X. Xu, K. Lebbou, F. Moretti, K. Pauwels, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray and C. Dujardin
Acta Materialia 67, pp.232-238, April 2014.

“Time resolution deterioration with increasing Crystal length in aTOF-PETsystem”
S. Gundacker, A.Knapitsch, E.Auffray, P.Jarron, T.Meyer, P.Lecoq
NIM A Volume 737, 11 February 2014, Pages 92-100

“Radiation Damage of Oxy-Orthosilicate Scintillation Crystals Under Gamma and High Energy Proton Irradiation”
E. Auffray; A. Fedorov; M. Korjik; M. Lucchini; V. Mechinski; N. Naumenko; A. Voitovich
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 61 (2014) 495-500

“Study of the Angular Distribution of Scintillation Photons”
G. Fornaro, K. Pauwels, A. Ghezzi, A. Knapitsch, P. Modrzynski, M. Pizzichemi, P. Lecoq and E. Auffray
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 61 (1), pp.456-461, Feb. 2014.

“PhenoPET: A dedicated PET Scanner for Plant Research based on digital SiPMs (DPCs)”
M. Streun, S. Beer, J. Daemen, R. Dorscheid, A. Erven, L. Jokhovets, L. Meessen, N. B. Mekala, O. Mülhens, H. Nöldgen, M. Pap, C. Peters, M. Ramm, S. Reinartz, J. Scheins, N. Schramm, B. Zwaans, G. Kemmerling, Y. Hämisch, C. Degenhardt, S. Jahnke, U. Schurr, S. van Waasen
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE, 9 Nov 2014 – 15 Nov 2014

“Defect-engineering in Ce-doped aluminum garnet single crystal scintillators”
M. Nikl, K. Kamada, V. Babin, J. Pejchal, K. Pilarova, E. Mihokova, A. Beitlerova, K. Bartosiewicz, S. Kurosawa, A. Yoshikawa
Crystal Growth Design 14, 4827-4833 (2014). dx.doi.org/10.1021/cg501005s

“Radioluminescence Sensitization in Scintillators and Phosphors: Trap Engineering and Modeling. ”
Moretti, F., Patton, G., Belsky, A., Fasoli, M., Vedda, A., Trevisani, M., … Dujardin, C.
(2014). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(18), 9670–9676. http://doi.org/10.1021/jp501717z (IF:4,77)

“Light yield sensitization by X-ray irradiation of the BaAl 4 O 7 :Eu 2+ ceramic scintillator obtained by full crystallization of glass. ”
Patton, G., Moretti, F., Belsky, A., Al Saghir, K., Chenu, S., Matzen, G., … Dujardin, C.
(2014). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16(45), 24824–24829. http://doi.org/10.1039/C4CP04064C (IF:4,49)

“Ce-doped LuAG single-crystal fibers grown from the melt for high-energy physics. ”
Xu, X., Lebbou, K., Moretti, F., Pauwels, K., Lecoq, P., Auffray, E., & Dujardin, C.
(2014). Acta Materialia, 67, 232–238. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.12.040 (IF:4,46)

“Response of Inorganic Scintillators to Neutrons of 3 and 15 MeV Energy”
M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, M. Pizzichemi, R. Chipaux, F. Jacquot, H. Mazué, H. Wolff, P. Lecoq and E. Auffray,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 61 (2014) 472 478.

“Development of a high-density position decoder circuit for GAPD-based PET with a large number of readout channels,”
J.H. Jung, Y. Choi, J. Jung, and S. Kim,
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A., vol. 741, pp. 117-123, 2014.

“Radiation Damage of Oxy-Orthosilicate Scintillation Crystals Under Gamma and High Energy Proton Irradiation”
E Auffray, A Fedorov, M Korjik, M Lucchini, V Mechinski, N Naumenko, ..
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on 61 (1), 495-500, 2014

“Comparative Study of Damage Effects Induced by Gamma and High Energy Protons Irradiation in YAP:Ce, YAG:Ce and DSB:Ce “
E. Auffray, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, D. Kozlov, M. Lucchini, V. Mechinsky, K. Pauwels,
Scintillating Materials // IEEE2014, N55-8, 8-15 November 2014, Seattle, USA.

“GAMOS: A framework to do Geant4 simulations in different physics fields with a user-friendly interface”
P. Arce et al.,
Nucl. Inst. Meth. A, vol. 735, pp. 304-313, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.09.036

“Performance of the FlexToT time based PET readout ASIC for depth of interaction measurements”
J. Trenado et al.,
PoS (TIPP2014) 241, 2014.

“Development of ClearPEM-Sonic, a multimodal mammography system for PET and Ultrasound.”
G. Cucciati, E. Auffray, R. Bugalho, L. Cao, N. Di Vara, F. Farina, N. Felix, B. Frisch, A. Ghezzi, V. Juhan, D. Jun, P. Lasaygues, P. Lecoq, S. Mensah, O. Mundler, J. Neves, M. Paganoni, J. Peter, M. Pizzichemi, P. Siles, J.C. Silva, R. Silva, S. Tavernier, L. Tessonnier, J. Varela.
2014 JINST 9 C03008 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/C03008

“The mechanism of luminescence of BaF2 nanoparticles upon high-energy excitation”
V.V. Vistovskyy, A.V. Zhyshkovych, O.O. Halyatkin, N.E. Mitina, A.S. Zaichenko, P.A. Rodnyi, A.N. Vasil’ev, A.V. Gektin, A.S. Voloshinovskii,
Journal of Applied Physics 116, 054308 (2014); doi: 10.1063/1.4892112

“Picosecond transient absorption rise time for ultrafast tagging of the interaction of ionizing radiation with scintillating crystals in high energy phy sics experiements”
E.Auffray, O. Buganov, A.Fedorov, M.Korjik, V.Mechinsky, A.Tikhomirov, A.Vasil’ev, and P.Lecoq
JINST 9, 07017 (2014); doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/07/P07017

“Energy transfer in solid solutions ZnxMg1-xWO4”
D. Spassky, S. Omelkov, H. Mӓgi, V. Mikhailin, A. Vasil’ev, N. Krutyak, I. Tupitsyna, A. Dubovik, A. Yakubovskaya, A. Belsky
Optical Materials 36 (2014) 1660-1664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2013.12.039

“Excitonic and activator recombination channels in binary halide scintillation crystals”
S. Gridin, A.N. Vasil’ev, A. Belsky, N. Shiran, A. Gektin
Phys. Status Solidi B, 251 (2014) 942-949, DOI:10.1002/pssb.201350234

“Scintillation Efficiency Improvement by Mixed Crystal Use”
Gektin, A.V., Belsky, A.N., Vasil’ev A.N.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 61 (2014) 262-270, available online 5 September 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2277883

“Multiscale Approach to Estimation of Scintillation Characteristics”
Andrey N. Vasil’ev and Aleksandr V. Gektin
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 61 (2014) 235-245, accepted August 28, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2282117

“Can transient phenomena help improving time resolution in scintillators?”
Paul Lecoq, Mikaeel Korzhik, and Andrey Vasil’ev,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 61 (2014) 229-234, accepted August 09, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2282232

Presentations

“A Photoelasticity measurement set-up for the assessment of residual stresses in scintiallating crystals”
L. Montalto, L. Scalise, D. Rinaldi, N. Paone.
Proceeding III Congresso Nazionale Del Coordinamento Della Meccanica Italiana (2014)

“Asymmetric Data Acquisition System for an Endoscopic PET-US Scanner”
Carlos Zorraquino. Ricardo Bugalho, Manuel Rolo, Jose C. Silva, Viesturs Vecklans, Rui Silva, Catarina Ortigão, Jorge A. Neves, Stefaan Tavernier, João Varela.
19the Real time conference, May 26-30, 2014, Nara Japan, (published in conference records

“Performance Evaluation of a PET/MR Detector Based on the ClearPEM Technology”
Jorge A. Neves, Ricardo Bugalho, Catarina Ortiga ̃o, Rui Silva, Jose ́ C. Silva, Rolf Gruetter, Stefaan Tavernier, Joa ̃o Varela
IEEE NSS-MIC conference, Seattle, November 2014, published in proceedings.

“A Compact Detector Module for Time of Flight PET and the Associated DAQ system”
Ricardo Bugalho, Katayoun Doroud, Agostino Di Francesco, Jorge Neves, Tahereh Niknejad, Catarina Ortigão, Manuel Dionísio Rolo, José C. Silva, Rui Silva, Stefaan Tavernier, Viesturs Veckalns, Carlos Zorraquino, Joao Varela,
IEEE NSS-MIC conference, Seattle, November 2014, published in proceedings.

“EndoTOFPET-US: Commissioning of a Multi-Modal Endoscope for Ultrasound and Time od Flight PET”
By Joao Varela “on behalf of the endotof PET collaboration)
IEEE, NSS-MIC November 2014, Seattle , to be published in conference record

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Evolution of the CMS ECAL Performance and R&D Studies for Calorimetry Options at High Luminosity LHC”
Marco Lucchini
Univesity Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 2014

“Study of time profiles of heavy scintillating crystals”
Nicolas di Varra
Univesity Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 2014

“Time resolution in scintillator based detectors for positron emission tomography”
Stefan Gundacker,
PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2014.

“Tomographie spectrale à comptage de photons : développement du prototype PIXSCAN et preuve de concept”
Mathieu Dupont
PhD in science – Aix-Marseille Université- 2014