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scintillator
[ sin-tl-ey-ter ]
noun
- a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
scintillator
/ ˈsɪntɪˌleɪtə /
noun
- physics a phosphor that produces scintillations
Word History and Origins
Origin of scintillator1
Example Sentences
Neutrons emitted from the fission event are then measured in either the liquid scintillator or lithium-glass detector arrays, depending on the experiment's energy range, with both detectors recording flashes of light induced within the detectors by the neutrons.
Some of the surviving electron antineutrinos will slam into a proton in the scintillator, producing an energetic positron that results in a flash of light.
It would tweak JUNO’s liquid scintillator so the detector could watch for another exotic nuclear physics phenomenon called neutrinoless double beta decay.
The sphere will soon be filled with 20,000 tons of a liquid scintillator—an organic solution that fluoresces, or scintillates, when excited by a neutrino interacting with nuclei in its atoms.
In the 1990s, an experiment called the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector experiment at the US Department for Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico saw the production of more electron neutrinos than could be explained by the three-neutrino flavour-flipping theory.
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