Ce doped garnet structure crystalline scintillation materials for HEP instrumentation

To date, more than 200 scintillation materials have been developed, however only a few of them are widely used for detectors design and construction. A general trend is to use for detectors the elements produced from the selected top-quality grade scintillation materials instead of expensive novel chemically not stable halides. Another trend, which came in the last few years, is to apply new achievements from the theory of scintillation materials to engineer the properties of the materials for a particular application. From that point of view, the complex oxides with garnet structure is a family of materials, for which properties can be tuned for the best performance for a particular application at the ionizing radiation detection.