scintillation

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With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

The research team has put forward and substantiated a novel theory regarding the scintillation mechanisms induced by protons in CsPbBr3 nanocrystals.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

It will be the largest and most sensitive scintillation detector ever built.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023

Then they tracked the resulting annihilation radiation at the farthest edges of their experiment, using two photomultiplier tubes, anthracene crystals and a scintillation counter as a gamma-ray detector.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2023

On April 16 Cockcroft and Walton nervously summoned Rutherford to the basement so he might see for himself a scintillation pattern they thought heavily suggestive of alpha particles.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik