scintillation

With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

Additionally, organic plastic scintillators suffer from low scintillation yields and low particle radiation tolerances due to their low electron density, which hampers their single-proton detection sensitivity.

It will be the largest and most sensitive scintillation detector ever built.

One novel proposal, called THEIA, combines a water-based detector, like Hyper-K, alongside a “scintillation” detector that is more akin to DUNE—to reap the benefits of both approaches.

The Tibet ASgamma experiment spotted the photons using an array of nearly 600 scintillation detectors, sensors that turn particle strikes into electronic signals.