The detection of explosives and illicit materials is an issue of extremely importance for modern civilization. Among various methods of the explosive detection, the nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) and low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques have numerous advantages. Thus, the development of highly sensitive NQR/NMR technique, which allows reliable detection of landmines (for humanitarian purposes) and explosives in luggage is very actual task. This workshop is intended to review new approaches for increasing sensitivity of ¹⁴N NQR as well as to develop new approaches for liquid substances detection by low field NMR.

The main objective of the workshop is to bring together leading experts on key topics in the magnetic resonance detection of explosives and illicit substances in order to review recent developments and to outline new directions for the research in this field.

We hope that this workshop will provide a forum for all researches working in this field to review and find new approaches to overcome major current technology limitations of the NQR/NMR methods for the practical applications.