New scintillator materials for future and present facilities

In the recent years LaBr3:Ce crystals started a new generation of high performing scintillator detectors. In fact, a large number of different, new and promising scintillators are now becoming commercially available, as for example CeBr3, CLYC, SrI2. Some others, like GYGAG:Ce, CLLB, CLLC, will be available in the near future. The CLYC crystal enriched with 6Li provides extremely high efficiency for thermal neutron identification and detection with performances comparable to 3He tubes. The CLYC enriched with 7Li can provide the direct measurement of the neutron kinetic energy from the energy pulse signal. The most recent RDCe and CeBr3 scintillators. Such a new generation of detectors can be the backbone for the detectors array of the future accelerator facilities as for example ELI-NP which will provide...