{"id":996,"date":"2022-10-25T06:06:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2022-10-25T06:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:36:38","slug":"construction-of-plastic-scintillators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/construction-of-plastic-scintillators\/996.html","title":{"rendered":"Construction of plastic scintillators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A plastic scintillator detector consists of a scintillating fiber (sensitive volume), a light pipe (used to transmit scintillation photons), a photodetector, and an electrometer for readout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scintillation Dopants: Many plastic scintillators directly emit UV light which has a short attenuation length. This requires a fluorine dopant which converts the UV light to visible light (typically blue, green, or orange) for measurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Light pipe: a plastic or air-filled fiber that conducts the light from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/Scintillators\/Plastic-Scintillators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plastic scintillator<\/a><\/strong> to photodetector. One common design is the dual light pipe design which improves signal-to-noise ratio by allowing removal of Chernekov Radiation. In the dual light pipe design, one light pipe will connects the plastic scintillator to a photodetector. A second light pipe is placed near the plastic scintillator, but shielded from it. The second light pipe connects to a second photodetector, providing a background (Cherenkov) reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photodetector: digitizes photon signal for readout. Photodetector may be a photomultiplier tube, a photodiode or a camera (CCD or CMOS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plastic scintillator detector consists of a scin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}