Credit: Feng-Peng An Plastic scintillator with wavelength-shifting ... efficiency even at high thresholds ensures that the detector operates with high reliability and accuracy, meeting the strict ...

Comprising 160 plastic scintillator (PS ... Researchers from SYSU and IHEP have developed a unique muon veto detector system for TAO, a satellite experiment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino ...

School of Mathematics and Physics, Strategic partnership with the National Physical Laboratory. Paddy Regan joined the academic staff in the Physics Department at Surrey in 1994 after holding ...

One of these, the SuperFGD, is a highly sensitive two-ton detector made up of nearly two million small cubes. Each cube is crafted from plastic scintillator (PS), a material that emits light when ...

According to ETH Zurich, researchers from the Department of Physics have demonstrated that 3D printing offers a practical way to build large-scale plastic scintillator (PS) detectors for particle ...

An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments. In 2024 ...

Traditional detectors, however ... PMMA at concentrations of 0–80 wt% Mechanical hardness of the hybrid plastic scintillator monotonically increases with the amount of PMMA 4 2D distributions ...

Detectors and Associated Equipment. In the early 2010s, LLNL materials scientist Natalia Zaitseva and her team were the first to develop a plastic scintillator capable of pulse-shape ...