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Abstract
| Particle physics experiments running at future accelerator facilities will rely on fast timing detectors to cope with high event pileup and to enhance particle identification capabilities. Direct band gap engineered semiconductor nanostructures show a high potential for emission of prompt photons due to quantum confinement, standing out in fast timing and high light yield with potential low cost production, thus triggering interest in the high energy physics community. In this contribution, characterization results of the scintillation properties of some promising nanomaterial scintillators will be presented and an overview of possible light-based detector designs based on these nanomaterials will be given, focusing on the NanoCal Blue Sky project of the European project AIDAinnova, a new generation of shashlik calorimeters. First results, obtained during test beam activities, will be presented as well. |