Some recent developments in charged particle and gamma ray detectors

Significant developments have occurred over the past several years in radiation detectors available for use in accelerator-based experiments. Several are reviewed here, including trends in the application of newer inorganic scintillation materials, the use of photodiodes as substitutes for photomultiplier tubes in scintillation detectors, the availability of passivated planar silicon detectors, and entirely new cryogenic detectors based on pulse mode bolometry of single radiation quanta. (orig.)