Shashlik
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Shashlyk (Russian: Шашлык, from Crimean Tatar Şışlıq[1][2])
1. A form of Shish kebab popular throughout the former Soviet Union. Shashlik is generally either beef, pork, or lamb, depending on local preferences or religious observances. These skewers of meat are either all meat, all fat, or alternating pieces of meat and fat. While it is not unusual to see shashlik listed on the menu of restaurants, it is more commonly sold by street vendors who roast the skewers over wood, charcoal, or coal. Shashlyk is usually made on mangal.
2. In high energy physics detectors, shashlik refers to a pile of alternating slices of absorber (e.g. lead) and scintillator materials (crystal or plastic) used in calorimetry (see also external link http://rkb.home.cern.ch/rkb/PH14pp/node19.html). The absorber has a small interaction length, so that a particle radiates energy in a short track. The scintillator material produces visible light when transversed by the particle's radiated energy. This occurs with an electromagnetic calorimeter, in the form of photons and/or electron+positron pairs). The energy of the particle may be then measured by the intensity of scintillation light produced by the various scintillator slices.
This type of calorimeter was likely named after the popular form shish kebab sold by street vendors in the former Soviet Union by the Russian and Ukrainian scientists who first proposed it. See http://www.intas.be/catalog/92-0024.htm
