A scintillator (/ˈsɪntɪleɪtər/ SIN-til-ay-ter) is a material that exhibits scintillation, the property of luminescence, when excited by ionizing radiation...
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Scintillating scotoma is a common visual aura that was first described by 19th-century physician Hubert Airy (1838–1903). Originating from the brain,...
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Look up scintillation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scintillation can refer to: Scintillation (astronomy), atmospheric effects which influence astronomical...
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of incident radiation on a scintillating material, and detecting the resultant light pulses. It consists of a scintillator which generates photons in...
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by the scintillator and highly energetic electrons and holes are created in the material. The energy absorption mechanism by the scintillator depends...
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which uses the technique of mixing the active material with a liquid scintillator (e.g. zinc sulfide), and counting the resultant photon emissions. The...
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Scintillation is a fluctuation in the amplitude of a target on a radar display. It is closely related to target glint, or wander, an apparent displacement...
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The Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) was a scintillation counter at Los Alamos National Laboratory that measured the number of neutrinos being...
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Twinkling (redirect from Scintillation (astrophysics))
Twinkling, also called scintillation, is a generic term for variations in apparent brightness, colour, or position of a distant luminous object viewed...
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and heat pulse generated by a particle interaction within its internal scintillator crystal. The device was originally proposed by L. Gonzalez-Mestres and...
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improve the quantum yield of the scintillator, that is, the amount of visible photons that get extracted from the scintillator as a result of a single quanta...
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detectors by adding a light pipe to carry the photon signal from the scintillator inside the evacuated specimen chamber of the SEM to the photomultiplier...
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Baksan Neutrino Observatory (redirect from Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope)
Large Underground Scintillation Telescope (BLUST). This detector would consist of huge (10 kilotonnes) amounts of liquid scintillator. It would be located...
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inorganic scintillator crystal which like neutron-sensitive scintillating glass fiber detectors makes use of neutron capture by 6Li. Unlike scintillating glass...
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Scintigraphy (redirect from Scintillation scan)
coated with materials which scintillate when subjected to gamma rays are scanned with optical photon detectors and scintillation counters. The subjects are...
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Gamma camera (redirect from Scintillation camera)
A gamma camera (γ-camera), also called a scintillation camera or Anger camera, is a device used to image gamma radiation emitting radioisotopes, a technique...
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Grid illusion (redirect from Scintillating illusion)
common types of grid illusions are the Hermann grid illusion and the scintillating grid illusion. The Hermann grid illusion is an optical illusion reported...
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In astronomy, interplanetary scintillation refers to random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on the timescale of a few...
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detectors, which have no scintillator and are directly exposed to the electron beam, typically offer higher DQE than scintillator-coupled cameras. There...
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POPOP (category Phosphors and scintillators)
4-bis(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl) benzene is a scintillator. It is used as a wavelength shifter (also called a "secondary scintillator"), which means that it converts...
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Neutrino detector (section Scintillators)
substance. MINOS used a solid plastic scintillator watched by phototubes; Borexino uses a liquid pseudocumene scintillator also watched by phototubes; and the...
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absorber and scintillator tiles. The absorber has a small interaction length, so that a particle radiates energy in a short track. The scintillator material...
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interaction of ionizing radiation with a phosphor (see radioluminescence) or scintillator. The spinthariscope was invented by William Crookes in 1903. While observing...
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GAGG:Ce (category Phosphors and scintillators)
garnet (GAGG:Ce) is a single-crystal scintillator material (can also be used as ceramic poly-crystal scintillator). It is being considered for applications...
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function of the energy loss per path length for a particle traversing a scintillator, and gives a relation that is not linear at high loss rates. The relation...
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has 355 isomers). It is used as a solvent, distillation chaser, and scintillator component. It is used as a diluent for tributyl phosphate (TBP) in nuclear...
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of VFX. Retrieved March 25, 2025. "F1 Gets Release Date". "Watch the scintillating teaser for Apple Original Films' movie 'F1'". Formula One. July 7, 2024...
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1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene (section Scintillator)
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene dissolved in mineral oil is used as a liquid scintillator in particle physics experiments such as NOνA and Borexino. Cumene Merck...
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elegant proof of the role of scattering due to the ISM, or interstellar scintillation, by showing a time delay in arrival between the signal at widely spaced...
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Lyso can refer to: Lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate, known as LYSO, a scintillator crystal. Lysol (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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