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The development prospects have been considered of a scintillator-photodiode type detector with improved energy resolution attaining several per cent ($R=1-2%$). The main contributions to the scintielectron detector energy resolution have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov

The development of medium-energy inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) optics with meV and sub-meV resolution has attracted considerable efforts in recent years. Meanwhile, there are also concerns or debates about the fundamental and feasibility…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-12 Xian-Rong Huang

This is a brief review of liquid scintillators, an important technology for detection of ionizing radiation. We will first review the basic mechanisms of light production in most organic liquid scintillators. For most practical detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-06 Milind Vaman Diwan

Scintillating crystal detector may offer some potential advantages in the low-energy, low-background experiments. A 500 kg CsI(Tl) detector to be placed near the core of Nuclear Power Station II in Taiwan is being constructed for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 TEXONO Collaboration

New experimental research programs in the field of neutrino physics are calling for new detectors with large masses, high energy resolution and good background rejection capabilities. This paper presents a novel hybrid organic/inorganic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-03 S. Wagner , M. Grassi , A. Cabrera

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…

In recent experiments, inorganic scintillators have been used to study the decays of exotic nuclei, providing an alternative to silicon detectors and enabling measurements that were previously impossible. However, proper use of these…

Measurements have been performed of scintillation light intensities emitted from various inorganic scintillators irradiated with low-energy beams of highly-charged ions from an electron beam ion source (EBIS) and an electron cyclotron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Vogel , D. F. A. Winters , H. Ernst , H. Zimmermann , O. Kester

There exists an enormous interest for the study of very high energy domain in particle physics, both theoretically and experimentally, in the aim to construct a general theory of the fundamental constituents of matter and of their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Lazanu , S. Lazanu

In this paper we report a spectrometric approach to dual-energy digital radiography that has been developed and applied to identify specific organic substances and discern small differences in their effective atomic number. An experimental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-06 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov , G. M. Onyshchenko , P. Lecoq , C. Smith

We present a new conceptual radiation detector, the Architected Multimaterial Scintillator System, that utilizes a scintillator composed of multiple materials arranged in architected structures to enable new capabilities. By structuring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-11 Xianyi Zhang , Jason Philip Brodsky , Elaine Lee , Andrew Neil Mabe , Dominique Porcincula

This article presents the timing performance of materials with fast light emission, tested as Minimum Ionizing Particle detectors using 150 GeV hadron beams in Monte Carlo simulations and at the CERN SPS North Area. Pixels of cross-section…

Scintillators are important materials for radiographic imaging and tomography (RadIT), when ionizing radiations are used to reveal internal structures of materials. Since its invention by R\"ontgen, RadIT now come in many modalities such as…

The detection of photons above 10 keV through MeV and GeV energies is challenging due to the penetrating nature of the radiation, which can require large detector volumes, resulting in correspondingly high background. In this energy range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-21 David M. Smith

Scintillator-based X-ray imaging detectors are pivotal in numerous scientific and practical domains, including medical imaging, and security monitoring. Recent advancements have spurred interest in 4D X-ray imaging using synchrotron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-31 Masao Yoshino , Seiichi Yamamoto , Kohei Nakanishi , Katsunori Yogo , Kei Kamada , Nanase Koshikawa , Jun Kataoka , Akira Yoshikawa

Fluctuations in photon production in scintillator could contribute to the total energy resolution of a scintillation detector. This contribution, called intrinsic resolution (IR), is one of the factors limiting the total energy resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-16 O. Smirnov

A method of scanning mid-IR-laser microscopy has recently been proposed for the investigation of large-scale electrically and recombination-active defects in semiconductors and non-destructive inspection of semiconductor materials and…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-17 O. V. Astafiev , V. P. Kalinushkin , V. A. Yuryev

A 500 kg CsI(Tl) scintillating crystal detector is under construction for the studies of low-energy neutrino physics. The requirements, design, realization and the performance of the associated electronics, trigger, data acquisition and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 W. P. Lai , TEXONO Collaboration

Scintillating crystal detector offers potential advantages in low-energy (keV-MeV range) low-background experiments for particle physics and astrophysics. The merits are discussed using CsI(Tl) crystal as illustrations. The various physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-23 H. T. Wong

Neutron detectors are extensively used at many nuclear research facilities across Europe. Their application range covers many topics in basic and applied nuclear research: in nuclear structure and reaction dynamics (reaction reconstruction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Degerlier , S. Carturan , F. Gramegna , T. Marchi , M. Dalla Palma , M. Cinausero , G. Maggioni , A. Quaranta , G. Collazuol , J. Bermudez