Аннотация:This book presents the current advances in understanding of the fast excitation transfer
processes in inorganic scintillation materials, the discovery of new materials exhibiting excellent
time resolution, and the results on the evaluation of timing limits for scintillation detectors. The
book considers in-depth basic principles of primary processes in energy relaxation, which play
a key role in creating scintillating centers to meet a growing demand for knowledge to develop
new materials combining high energy and time resolutions. The rate of relaxation varies.
However, the goal is to make it extremely fast, occurring within the ps domain or even shorter.
The book focuses on fast processes in scintillation materials. This approach enables in-depth
understanding of fundamental processes in scintillation and supports the efforts to push the
timeresolution of scintillation detectors towards 10 ps target. Sophisticated theoretical and
advanced experimental research conducted in the last decade is reviewed. Engineering and
control of the energy transfer processes in the scintillation materials are addressed. The new
era in development of instrumentation for detection of ionizing radiation in high- energy
physics experiments, medical imaging and industrial applications is introduced. This book
reviews modern trends in the description of the scintillation build up processes in inorganic
materials, transient phenomena, and engineering of the scintillation properties.