Academic Research Applications (calorimeters, track detectors, muon detectors)
Plastic Scintillating Fiber (PSF) is a type of plastic optical fiber developed by Kuraray in the 1980s as a radiation detection material using a proprietary process. The core (inner layer) is made of polystyrene resin containing a fluorescent agent and the cladding (outer layer) is made of methacrylic resin (one or two layers). It is widely used in calorimeters and track detectors in physics experiments, and in recent years, it has been employed in various detectors that take advantage of its cosmic ray muon detection performance.
