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  • noun Plural form of phototube.

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  • And there were new phototubes just being produced by RCA which were suitable matches to sodium iodide crystals to convert the scintillations to electrical signals.

    Val Fitch - Autobiography 1981

  • Slide 6: Neutrino Detection 2 Scintillation Detectors: Neutrino collision produces light flash Detect light with phototubes Electron: Nucleus: Masatoshi Koshiba Nobel Prize 2002 Allows real-time detection, energy measurement Problem: High energy threshold (5-8

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