We report on a scintillator-based online detection system for the spectral characterization of polychromatic proton bunches. Using up to nine stacked layers of radiation hard polysiloxane scintillators, coupled to and readout edge-on by a large area pixelated CMOS detector, impinging polychromatic proton bunches were characterized. The energy spectra were reconstructed using calibration data and simulated using Monte-Carlo simulations. Despite the scintillator stack showed some problems like thickness inhomogeneities and unequal layer coupling, the prototype allows to obtain a first estimate of the energy spectrum of proton beams.
AN ONLINE, RADIATION HARD PROTON ENERGY-RESOLVING SCINTILLATOR STACK FOR LASER-DRIVEN PROTON BUNCHES / Englbrecht, Franz Siegfried; Würl, Matthias; Olivari, Francesco; Ficorella, Andrea; Kreuzer, Christian; Lindner, Florian H; Palma, Matteo Dalla; Pancheri, Lucio; Betta, Gian-Franco Dalla; Schreiber, Jörg; Quaranta, Alberto; Parodi, Katia. - In: RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY. - ISSN 0144-8420. - ELETTRONICO. - 2018:(2018). [10.1093/rpd/ncy008]
AN ONLINE, RADIATION HARD PROTON ENERGY-RESOLVING SCINTILLATOR STACK FOR LASER-DRIVEN PROTON BUNCHES
Ficorella, Andrea;Palma, Matteo Dalla;Pancheri, Lucio;Betta, Gian-Franco Dalla;Quaranta, Alberto;
2018-01-01
Abstract
We report on a scintillator-based online detection system for the spectral characterization of polychromatic proton bunches. Using up to nine stacked layers of radiation hard polysiloxane scintillators, coupled to and readout edge-on by a large area pixelated CMOS detector, impinging polychromatic proton bunches were characterized. The energy spectra were reconstructed using calibration data and simulated using Monte-Carlo simulations. Despite the scintillator stack showed some problems like thickness inhomogeneities and unequal layer coupling, the prototype allows to obtain a first estimate of the energy spectrum of proton beams.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
