Limits of Inorganic Scintillating Materials to Operate in a High Dose Rate Environment at Future Collider Experiments

This report gives a review of the radiation damages induced by gammas and energetic hadrons in inorganic scintillating materials. We discuss the creation and recovery of color centers in scintillating materials under gamma and high energy proton irradiation, the two main causes of irradiation in High Luminosity LHC. The induced phosphorescence and the production of radioisotopes in heavy and light inorganic scintillators and in surrounding construction materials, as well as their influence on the possible design of the detector working in a high dose rate environment, are also described.