scintillation

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One novel proposal, called THEIA, combines a water-based detector, like Hyper-K, alongside a “scintillation” detector that is more akin to DUNE—to reap the benefits of both approaches.

From Scientific American

The Tibet ASgamma experiment spotted the photons using an array of nearly 600 scintillation detectors, sensors that turn particle strikes into electronic signals.

From Science Magazine

So it could be that detail, or it could be that France, a team with the dazzling capacity to scintillate, did not scintillate wholly, committing insufficient scintillation.

From Washington Post

Vollmann treks through communities in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant, measuring radiation with a dosimeter and a scintillation counter wherever he goes.

From Washington Post

But I couldn’t have absorbed much more scintillation just then anyway.

From New York Times