Publications

Beam test evaluation of electromagnetic calorimeter modules made from proton-damaged PbWO4 crystals
T Adams, P Adzic, S Ahuja, D Anderson, MB Andrews, I Antropov…
Journal of Instrumentation, v. 11, pp.4-12. 2016

Luminescence rise time in self-activated PbWO4 and Ce-doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 scintillation crystals
E. Auffray, R. Augulis, A. Borisevich, V. Gulbinas, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, M.T. Lucchini, V. Mechinsky, S. Nargelas, E. Songaila, G. Tamulaitis, A. Vaitkevičius, S. Zazubovich
Journal of Luminescence, Vol 178, 2016, 54-60
doi:10.1016/j.jlumin.2016.05.015

Free carrier absorption in self-activated PbWO4 and Ce-doped Y3(Al0.25Ga0.75)3O12 and Gd3Al2Ga3O12 garnet scintillators
E. Auffray, M. Korjik, M.T. Lucchini, S. Nargelas, O. Sidletskiy, G. Tamulaitis, Y. Tratsiak, A. Vaitkevičius
Optical Materials, Volume 58, August 2016, Pages 461-465
doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2016.06.040

In-depth study of single photon time resolution for the Philips digital silicon photomultiplier.
Z Liu, S Gundacker, M Pizzichemi, A Ghezzi, E Auffray, P Lecoq, M Paganoni,
2016 Journal of Instrumentation, 11 (06) P06006

Preparation and luminescence properties of ZnO:Ga – polystyrene composite scintillator
H.Buresova, L. Prochazkova, R. Martinez, V. Jary, Eva MiHokova, Alena Beitlerova, R. Pjatkan S Gundacker, E Auffray, P Lecoq, M. Nikl and V. Cuba
Voll. 24, No. 14 | 11 Jul 2016 | OPTICS EXPRESS 15289

Growth of long undoped and Ce-doped LuAG single crystal fibers for dual readout calorimetryOriginal Research Article
V. Kononets, E. Auffray, C. Dujardin, S. Gridin, F. Moretti, G. Patton, K. Pauwels, O. Sidletskiy, X. Xu, K. Lebbou
Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 435, 1 February 2016, Pages 31-36
doi:10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2015.11.024

A new method for depth of interaction determination in PET detectors
M Pizzichemi, G Stringhini, T Niknejad, Z Liu, P Lecoq, S Tavernier, J Varela, M Paganoni and E Auffray
Phys. Med. Biol. 61 (2016) 4679–4698
doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/12/4679

Measurement of intrinsic rise times for various L(Y)SO and LuAG scintillators with a general study of prompt photons to achieve 10 ps in TOF-PET
S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, K. Pauwels and P. Lecoq
Phys. Med. Biol. 61 (2016) 2802–2837
doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/7/2802

Effect of Mg2+ ions co-doping on timing performance and radiation tolerance of Cerium doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 crystals
M. Lucchini, V. Babin, P. Bohacek, S. Gundacker, K. Kamada, M. Niklc, A. Petrosyan, A. Yoshikawa, E. Auffray,
NIM A Volume 816, 21 April 2016, Pages 176–183,
doi:/10.1016/j.nima.2016.02.004

Test beam results of a high granularity LuAG fibre calorimeter prototype
Benaglia, M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, C. Tully, T. Medvedeva, A. Heering, C. Dujardin, V. Kononets, K. Lebbou, N. Aubry, S. Faraj, G. Ferro, P. Lecoq and E. Auffray
JINST 11 P05004, 2016
doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/05/P05004

Detection of minimum ionizing particles with sub-20 ps timing resolution using L(Y)SO crystals and SiPM readout
Benaglia, S. Gundacker, P. Lecoq, M. T. Lucchini, A. Para, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, vol. 830, pp. 30, May 2016.

Performance study of Philips digital silicon photomultiplier coupled to scintillating crystals
Z. Liu , M. Pizzichemi , E. Auffray , P. Lecoq , M. Paganoni
2016 JINST 11 P01017

Radiation Tolerance of LuAG:Ce and YAG:Ce Crystals under High Levels of Gamma- and Proton-Irradiation
M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, K. Blazek, S. Ochesanu and E. Auffray
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 586-590
doi:10.1109/TNS.2015.2493347

Measurement of LYSO Intrinsic Light Yield using electron excitation
R. Martinez Turtos, S. Gundacker, M. Pizzichemi, A. Ghezzi, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray, H. Hillemans, P. Lecoq, M. Paganoni
2016 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63 (2) 475-479
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2527738

Alternative geometries for improved light output of inorganic scintillating crystals,
M. V. Nemallapudi, S. Gundacker, R. M. Turtos, M. Vangeleyn, N. Brillouet, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray,
2016 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63 (2) 649-655
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2493347

Light Extraction From Scintillating Crystals Enhanced by Photonic Crystal Structures Patterned by Focused Ion Beam
Pawel Modrzynski; Teodor Gotszalk; Arno Knapitsch; Piotr Kunicki; Paul Lecoq; Magdalena Moczala; Ioannis Papakonstantinou; Etiennette Auffray
2016 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63 (2) 644-648
10.1109/TNS.2015.2494368

Beam test evaluation of electromagnetic calorimeter modules made from proton-damaged PbWO4 crystals.
T Adams, P Adzic, S Ahuja, D Anderson, MB Andrews, I Antropov…
Journal of Instrumentation, v. 11, pp.4-12. 2016

Growth and scintillation properties of praseodymium doped (Lu,Gd)3(Ga,Al)5O12 single crystals
K. Kamada, M. Nikl, S. Kurosawa, Y. Shoji, J. Pejchal, Y. Ohashi, Y. Yokota, A. Yoshikawa, ,
(2016). J. Lumin. 169, 811-815 (2016).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.05.057

Photoelastic Sphenoscopic Analysis of Crystals,
F. Davì, D. Rinaldi, N. Paone, L. Scalise and L. Montalto.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 87(1), 015113, 2016.

Large scale production of photonic crystals on scintillators
Arno Knapitsch, Etiennette Auffray, George Barbastathis, Celine Chevalier, Chih-Hung Hsieh,
Jeong-Gil Kim, Shuai Li, Matthew S. J. Marshall, Radoslaw Mazurczyk, Pawel Modrzynski, Vivek Nagarkar, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Bipin Singh, Alaric Taylor, Paul Lecoq
Proceedings of SCINT2015 13th international conference on Scintillators and their applications, Berkeley, June 2015.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 639-643
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2535328

Limits of Inorganic Scintillating Materials to Operate in a High Dose Rate Environment at Future Collider Experiments
M. Korjik, E. Auffray
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 552-563
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2527701

Space-Time Development of Electromagnetic and Hadronic Showers and Perspectives for Novel Calorimetric Techniques
Benaglia, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, H. Wenzel, A. Para
Proceedings of SCINT2015 13th international conference on Scintillators and their applications, Berkeley, June 2015.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 574 -579
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2527758

Ultrafast emission from colloidal nanocrystals under pulsed X-ray excitation
R. M Turtos, A. Polovitsyn, S. Christodoulou, M. Salomoni, S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, I. Moreels, P. Lecoq and J.Q. Grime;
Submitted to JINST, Published 19 October 2016

State of the art timing in TOF-PET detectors with LuAG, GAGG and L(Y)SO scintillators of various sizes coupled to FBK-SiPMs
S. Gundacker, F. Acerbi, E. Auffray, A. Ferri, A. Gola, M.V. Nemallapudi, G. Paternoster, C. Piemonte and P. Lecoq
JINST 11P08008, 2016
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/11/08/P08008

Presentations

Characterization of a PET prototype based on monolithic detectors
J.Marín, M.Á.Morcillo, J.Navarrete, J.C.Oller, M.Oteo, J.M.Pérez, P.Rato Mendes, L.Romero, I.Sarasola, O.Vela
2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2016.8069437

Development of a High Resolution Module for PET scanners
Gianluca Stringhini, Marco Pizzichemi, Alessio Ghezzi, Stefaan Tavernier, Tahereh Niknejad, Joao Varela, Paul Lecoq, Marco Paganoni and Etiennette Auffray in the frame of the Crystal Clear Collaboration under the Contract Agreement KM2912/KT/PH/004C
(1) University of Milano Bicocca (2) CERN (3) LIP,
ICTR-PHE 2016 Conference. February 16-16, Geneva, 2016

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

Timing studies on Scintillator – Silicon Photomultiplier based photon detection system.
M. Varun Nemallapudi
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO, Portugal, 2016

Tomographie hybride simultanée TEP/TDM combinant détecteurs à pixels hybrides et modules phoswich à scintillateurs
Margaux Hamonet
PhD in science – Aix-Marseille Université- 2016