Saifulin, M. Boutachkov, P. Gorokhova, E.I. Rodnyi, P. Trautmann, C. Venevtsev, I.D. Walasek-Höhne, B. JACoW Publishing Geneva, Switzerland 2673-5350 978-3-95450-241-7 10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-TUP29 English 294-295 radiation heavy-ion detector vacuum proton Contribution to a conference proceedings 2022 2022-12 https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-TUP29 https://jacow.org/ibic2022/papers/tup29.pdf ZnO-based ceramics are known as promising scintillators exhibiting light emission in the ultraviolet (UV) spectral region (~390 nm) and ultrafast decay times (<1 ns). They are of great interest for applications in scintillation counters and screens at high-energy heavy ion accelerators. In this contribution, the deterioration of scintillating properties of ZnO-based ceramics subjected to heavy ion exposure at high doses is investigated. The scintillation light spectra of ZnO(In) as a function of fluence for 4.8 MeV/u 48Ca and 197Au ions were studied. We observed that the deterioration of the scintillation intensity with increasing fluence follows the Birks-Black model.