The Status of the Scintillation Chamber

Several successful experiments carried out with the scintillation chamber are summarized to show what can be done with the systems which can be built now. There have been no developments in scintillation chamber components in the last year which allow radical improvements of these present systems. Many of the high energy nuclear experiments envisaged for the scintillation chamber can be done better with spark chambers. As a result of these two factors, there are only a few areas where a scintillation chamber is now the best instrument to use. Examples of such areas are space physics experiments, high energy beam imaging, high energy gamma ray detection and particle decays.