Definitions
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- noun A substance that glows when hit by high-energy particles or photons.
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- noun physics Any substance that
glows under the action ofphotons or other high-energyparticles
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Examples
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The latest is a "scintillating bolometer", a 46-gram device that, in this case, contains a crystal "scintillator", made up of bismuth, germinate and oxygen BGO: Bi4Ge3O12, which acts as a dark matter detector.
A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way | Universe Today 2009
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Antares is, like Sirius, always seen as a brilliant "scintillator"
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When attached to the new high-gain photomultiplier tubes and strung into the array of amplifiers, pulse-height analyzers, and scalers that emerged from the Rad Lab and Los Alamos, then and only then did the scintillator and Cerenkov radiation became part of the material culture of postwar physics.
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The materials should still be as close as possible, optically speaking, to the original scintillator, to allow for PMT cross-talk effects such as dynode glow, etc.
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The latter is cool: KamLAND (the Kamioka Liquid scintillator AntiNeutrino Detector in Japan) has observed the appearance of electron neutrinos orginating from radioactive decays inside the Earth, presumably from U-238 or Th-232.
Top Physics Stories JoAnne 2005
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In the old Kamioka cavity inside a Japanese mountain, where the predecessor of the SuperKamiokande detector was housed, a new detector has been built, a stainless-steel tank containing a spherical balloon holding one kiloton of liquid scintillator.
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And I wanted the scintillator, so to the auction we went.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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The wire chamber and its followers, the time projection chamber and several large wire chamber/scintillator/Cherenkov detector arrangements, combined into complex systems, has made possible the selective search for extremely rare events (like heavy quark production), which are hidden in strong backgrounds of other signals.
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The projects also drew us into developing innovative detector techniques, including the use of large liquid scintillator and water Cherenkov detectors.
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These experiments all utilized small scintillator counters.
qms commented on the word scintillator
His busy day had tired the satyr
Who declined for now to violate her.
"I prefer pillows
To fresh peccadilloes.
I’ll sleep and won't scintillator."
April 14, 2015