Scintillator sensors (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Scintillator sensors

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These are the sensors used to detect the weakly interacting muon particles. Each scintillator sensor is extremely dense to maximize the chances that a muon will interact with it. Arranged in a grid, the sensors can form a crude image of whatever the muons passed through to reach the sensor.

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©2022 Hiroyuki KM Tanaka

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