Joint DRD5-Unicorn workshop on radiation damage to quantum dots

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 - 9:00 AM
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 26, 2025
AM
9:00 AM Welcome - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
9:10 AM Lecture - Dos and don'ts with nanocrystals - Sergio Brovelli  
10:10 AM
Nanocomposite R&D (until 2:30 PM)
10:10 AM Ionizing Radiation Effects and Defect Control in Perovskite NCs scintillators - Francesco Carulli (Università di Milano Bicocca)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Synthesis and characterization of Cs2TeCl6 powder for scintillators - Lenka Prouzova Prochazkova  
11:30 AM Investigating an unorthodox approach for preparing glass nanocomposites - František Zajíc (Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)  
12:00 PM Development of scintillating nanocomposites based on cesium lead halide nanocrystals for radiation detection - Jan Kral (Czech Technical University, Institute of Physics Czech Academy of Sciences)  
12:30 PM Quantum-Cooperative Scintillation in Weakly Confined Lead-Halide Perovskites: From Giant-Oscillator-Strength to Coherent Superfluorescent Ultrafast Scintillators - Matteo Zaffalon (University Milano-Bicocca)  
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM Bulk vs. Nanoscintillators: Understanding the Key Differences - Christophe Dujardin (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR))  
PM
2:30 PM
Irradiation and Beam Tests (until 4:20 PM)
2:30 PM Quantum dots for HEP, space and medicine - Tribikram Choudhury (Institute of Engineering and Management (IN))  
3:00 PM Real-time capture of electron-induced material degradation using CL-SEM tools - Gabija Soltanaite (Vilnius university)  
3:30 PM Proton and Neutron irradiation facilities for community access - Dr Vagelis Gkougkousis (University of Zurich)  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Applications (until 5:20 PM)
4:20 PM NanoCal: Development of nanocomposite scintillators for high-energy physics - Matthew David Moulson  
4:50 PM Towards chromatic calorimetry using nanocomposites - Vojtech Zabloudil (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))  
5:20 PM
Simulation (until 6:20 PM)
5:20 PM Geant4-based simulation of CCAL prototype - Yacine Haddad (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
5:50 PM Ab-initio simulation of quantum dots - Marek Matas (CERN)