Explore: Liquid Scintillators

form of a surfactant, and "fluors" or scintillators which produce the light measured by the detector. Scintillators can be divided into primary and secondary

the modern scintillation detector. Scintillators are used by the American government as Homeland Security radiation detectors. Scintillators can also be

The Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) was a scintillation counter at Los Alamos National Laboratory that measured the number of neutrinos being

used to detect both. A scintillator such as zinc sulphide is used for alpha particle detection, whilst plastic scintillators are used for beta detection

counter. Scintillation neutron detectors include liquid organic scintillators, crystals, plastics, glass and scintillation fibers. Organic scintillators are

alternative method is to use liquid scintillation counting (LSC), where the sample is directly mixed with a scintillation cocktail. When the individual

butyl-phenyl-bipheny-oxydiazole) is a fluorescent organic compound used in the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

scintillator watched by phototubes; Borexino uses a liquid pseudocumene scintillator also watched by phototubes; and the NOνA detector uses a liquid scintillator

detector The accompanying diagram shows this graphically. Large area scintillation counters used for surface radioactive contamination measurements use

detector, which aims to detect electron antineutrinos using a large liquid scintillator. The interactions measured by the detector are inverse beta decays;