CRYSTAL CLEAR COLLABORATION AT CERN
The Chrystal Clear collaboration was set up in 1990 and registered
at CERN by the DRDC (Detector Research&Development Committee) as
RD-18. The aim was to study the possible use of heavy scintillating materials
in experiments at the new proton – proton collider LHC. This project was
quite successful and the CMS experiment is now building a large electromagnetic
calorimeter using PbWO4 scintillator chrystals. Meanwhile a better understanding
of fundamental mechanisms of scintillation allowed the collaboration
to developed new vary dense and fast scintillators having a great potential
for applications in medical imaging devices like PET.
Attention is paid to the development of a new scintillating materials and
a new detector technology for PET, because this is close to the expertise
acquired in high energy physics, and because of the growing interest for
PET in the medical world. The new technology will be based on the use of
scintillating materials and new photo detectors, which together allow
the development of much better detector elements. Regarding the new scintillators,
we are concentarating our attention to LuAP:Ce. This material has very promising
properties.
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