The experiment plans to use a range of detector materials.

The neutron background is therefore indistinguishable and has to be reduced as well as possible, as for example by carefully choosing the detector materials.

Energy loss: if the hadronization of the gluino has produced a charged R-hadron, it will lose energy by ionization when traversing the detector material.

In general, larger detectors have higher efficiency than smaller detectors, although the shielding properties of the detector material are also important factors.

The Fano factor achieveable is an important parameter of the detector material - the smaller it is the better.

Vanadium pentoxide is frequently used as a detector material in uncooled microbolometer arrays.

Infrared radiation with wavelengths between 7.5-14 μm strikes the detector material, heating it, and thus changing its electrical resistance.

In thermographic imaging, infrared radiation with wavelengths between 8-13 micrometers strikes the detector material, heating it, and thus changing its electrical resistance.

It is often alloyed with lead to make lead tin telluride, which is used as an infrared detector material.

In its crystalline form it is used as a detector material for high energy photons including x-rays and gamma rays.