Plastic Scintillator: Benefits in Beta Decay Experiments

[Mrinmoy Naskar]

. why plastic scintillator is more useful than other scintillator in beta decay experiment??

 

[mfb]

It depends on what you want to measure.
Did you look up the advantages and disadvantages of plastic scintillators?

 

[Mrinmoy Naskar]

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..

 

[gleem]

One reason is that the heavy Z components of an inorganic scintillator creates more backscatter than an organic which causes spectral distortion.

 

[mfb]

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.