  New experimental research programs in the field of neutrino physics are
calling for new detectors with large masses, high energy resolution and good
background rejection capabilities. This paper presents a novel hybrid
organic/inorganic scintillator, which is able to improve on all three aspects
simultaneously. This scintillator consists of microscopic grains of inorganic
crystals suspended in an organic scintillating carrier medium. Due to multiple
scattering off the crystals, this scintillator appears opaque over longer
distances and is intended for use in specialized detectors. Thanks to the
crystal phase it can natively incorporate a large variety of elements in large
quantities, so that a sufficiently large detector can reach elemental loadings
on the ton- or multiton scale. At the same time, this composition can produce
very high light outputs and provides additional particle identification
capabilities. This scintillator concept is expected to provide significant
advantages for future neutrino experiments, like searches of neutrinoless
double beta experiments and reactor antineutrino physics.
