A Plastic Scintillator: Benefits in Beta Decay Experiments

Mrinmoy Naskar
Messages
12
Reaction score
0
. why plastic scintillator is more useful than other scintillator in beta decay experiment??
 
Physics news on Phys.org
It depends on what you want to measure.
Did you look up the advantages and disadvantages of plastic scintillators?
 
I want to measure the end point energy of beta particles emitted from a radioactive source which is placed above the plastic scintillator ... yeah I am looking for the advantages of plastic scintillator in this particular case..
 
One reason is that the heavy Z components of an inorganic scintillator creates more backscatter than an organic which causes spectral distortion.
 
Then you probably want a good energy resolution, while timing resolution is not that important. Every comparison of scintillator types should cover those two things.
 

Thread 'Toponium Discovered'

Toponium is a hadron which is the bound state of a valance top quark and a valance antitop quark. Oversimplified presentations often state that top quarks don't form hadrons, because they decay to bottom quarks extremely rapidly after they are created, leaving no time to form a hadron. And, the vast majority of the time, this is true. But, the lifetime of a top quark is only an average lifetime. Sometimes it decays faster and sometimes it decays slower. In the highly improbable case that...
View full post »

Thread 'Dirac-Delta from Normalization of Continuous Eigenfunctions'

I'm following this paper by Kitaev on SL(2,R) representations and I'm having a problem in the normalization of the continuous eigenfunctions (eqs. (67)-(70)), which satisfy \langle f_s | f_{s'} \rangle = \int_{0}^{1} \frac{2}{(1-u)^2} f_s(u)^* f_{s'}(u) \, du. \tag{67} The singular contribution of the integral arises at the endpoint u=1 of the integral, and in the limit u \to 1, the function f_s(u) takes on the form f_s(u) \approx a_s (1-u)^{1/2 + i s} + a_s^* (1-u)^{1/2 - i s}. \tag{70}...
View full post »

Similar threads

A A liquid crystal of Potassium-42 Chloride for directional neutrino detection
Replies
8
Views
3K
I Incorrect units when calculating cosmic ray muon flux
Replies
17
Views
2K
I Where are the Beta Particles in a Muon Detector?
Replies
3
Views
2K
I How to read this decay sheet (gamma emission after beta decay)
Replies
4
Views
2K
A Madame Wu Experiment: Doubts & Reasoning
Replies
4
Views
2K
A Interpretation of Bi-207 decay spectrum
Replies
6
Views
5K
I Scintillation photon energy conversion?
Replies
3
Views
2K
I Two stage amplifier for a plastic scintillator
Replies
6
Views
2K
Muon Detection & Decay Time: Scintillator Explained
Replies
1
Views
2K
A Liquid Scintillation Counting: External source to determine efficiency
Replies
3
Views
3K

Hot Threads

Recent Insights

Back
Top