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Scintillation Detectors in Experiments on High Energy Physics

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Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies (ISMART 2016)

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Scintillation counters have been serving as one of the main particle detector for more than hundred years. By now a number of scintillation detectors types and detector systems were developed and used widely in high energy physics experiments to detect charged and neutral particles in a large energy range from 1 keV to hundreds of GeV. Main classes of the scintillation materials are inorganic and organic scintillators. However, liquid and gaseous scintillators are exploited as well in some experiments. This review includes the present status of the scintillation technique use in high energy physics experiments, main characteristics of the existing scintillators, examples of experiments and a consideration of the further development of this type of detectors.

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Work on this review was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project N 14-50-00080).

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  1. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of SB RAS, Lavrentiev av, 11, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    B. A. Shwartz

  2. Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova Street, 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

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  1. Research Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus

    Mikhail Korzhik

  2. Institute for Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Kharkov, Ukraine

    Alexander Gektin

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Shwartz, B.A. (2017). Scintillation Detectors in Experiments on High Energy Physics. In: Korzhik, M., Gektin, A. (eds) Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies. ISMART 2016. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68465-9_13

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