scintillator

[ sin-tl-ey-ter ]

noun

, Physics.

1. a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.

scintillator

/ ˈsɪntɪˌleɪtə /

noun

1. physics a phosphor that produces scintillations

Word History and Origins

Origin of scintillator¹

First recorded in 1870–75; scintillate + -or ²

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.

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Magazine

It would tweak JUNO’s liquid scintillator so the detector could watch for another exotic nuclear physics phenomenon called neutrinoless double beta decay.

From Science Magazine

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.

From Science Magazine

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.

From BBC