A Hands-on Experience with a Novel Scintillation Detector for Particle Physics
Physics Education
2025-06-03 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
Particle physics, when taught in the classroom or lecture theatre, suffers from a lack of practical experience by students. Thus, we describe the construction of a fully working small particle physics detector using state of the art detector technology for demonstration in educational context. Most of our setup can be constructed with relatively moderate effort, given that a home-level 3D-printer, a photosensor and readout electronics (at least an oscilloscope) are available.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.14140,
title = {A Hands-on Experience with a Novel Scintillation Detector for Particle Physics},
author = {Anja Bitar and Andrea Brogna and Fabian Piermaier and Steffen Schönfelder and Stefan Schoppmann and Quirin Weitzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14140},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
12 pages, 7 figures