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Scintillators meaning
plural of scintillator
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Caesium iodide (CsI), bromide (CsBr) and caesium fluoride (CsF) crystals are employed for scintillators in scintillation counters widely used in mineral exploration and particle physics research to detect gamma and X-ray radiation.
Crystal scintillators Instead of a liquid noble gas, an in principle simpler approach is the use of a scintillating crystal such as NaI(Tl).
EAS arrays employ plastic scintillators in order to detect particles.
Noble gas scintillators Another way of detecting atoms "knocked about" by a WIMP is to use scintillating material, so that light pulses are generated by the moving atom and detected, often with PMTs.
The scanners are apparently based on microminiature scintillators and amplified avalanche photodiodes (APDs) though a new system recently invented uses single chip silicon photomultipliers.