A noble-gas scintillator detector for heavy ions is described. The results of tests performed on a 170 MeV Ar beam show excellent separation between the signals from Ar ions elastically scattered on a Au target at 90 degrees and a background from secondary electrons and X-rays. The detector has been operated with pure Xe gas at 250 hPa. The energy resolution obtained during the test was about 10%, and the time resolution was found to be better than 3 ns.
Kuzminski, J., Holzmann, R., Loiselet, M., Van Hove, M.-A., & Vervier, J. (1983). A versatile noble-gas scintillator detector for Coulomb excitation experiments. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, 217(3), 449-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-5087(83)90754-8 (Original work published 1983)