How User’s Requirements Influence the Development of Scintillators

In this chapter we discuss practical scintillation parameters which are relevant from a user’s point of view for the pragmatic choice of an existing or the development of a new scintillator. For the majority of applications the most relevant ones are density, operation speed, light yield, identification of particles, production capability, stability under ionizing radiation, durability of operational parameters. We describe five main domains of applications, each of them with its own list of requirements: high energy physics, medical imaging, security applications, physics of the universe, and well and mud logging.

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