Detection of β-ray from 3H with back illuminated sCMOS imager

IF 1.6 3区工程技术 Q3 CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR

Applied Radiation and Isotopes Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI:10.1016/j.apradiso.2024.111604

Makoto Sasano , Masateru Hayashi , Nobukazu Teranishi

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Abstract

Tritium occurs in nuclear power plants. The energy of beta-rays from tritium is so low that detecting the beta-rays is challenging. Therefore, method of measuring tritium surface contamination is required. Liquid scintillators are generally used to measure the beta-rays. However, this method is complicated to use on-site. To measure tritium surface contamination on-site, we attempted to detect tritium using the GSENSE2020BSI back-illuminated sCMOS imager.

We used a tritium areal radiation source to validate the detection of beta rays from tritium. The beta-rays cause bright spots in images and spread to multipixel. The average number of the pixels by the beta-rays was 4.6 and covered within a 3x3 pixel region. The energy spectrum from 10,000 images with 3x3 binning patterns showed a continuous shape spectrum. The spectra shape was characteristic of beta-ray spectra, demonstrating that the energy spectrum could be obtained with low-energy beta rays from tritium using the back-illuminated sCMOS image sensor. The spectral shape was produced from a radiation simulation using Geant4. From the simulation, the sCMOS sensor was able to measure tritium contamination of 10 becquerels (Bq)/cm² within 100 s and 4 Bq/cm² within 480 s.

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背照sCMOS成像仪对3H β射线的检测

氚存在于核电站中。氚射线的能量很低，探测到射线是很有挑战性的。因此，需要一种测量氚表面污染的方法。液体闪烁体通常用于测量射线。然而，这种方法在现场使用起来很复杂。为了在现场测量氚表面污染，我们尝试使用GSENSE2020BSI背光sCMOS成像仪检测氚。我们使用氚面辐射源来验证从氚中检测到的射线。射线会在图像中产生亮点，并扩散到多个像素。射线的平均像素数为4.6，覆盖在3x3像素区域内。1万张3 × 3分形图像的能谱显示出连续的形状谱。光谱形状具有β射线谱的特征，表明利用背照式sCMOS图像传感器可以获得氚低能β射线的能谱。光谱形状是通过使用Geant4进行辐射模拟产生的。模拟结果表明，该传感器能够在100秒内测量到10贝克勒尔(Bq)/cm2的氚污染，在480秒内测量到4贝克勒尔/cm2的氚污染。

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Applied Radiation and Isotopes 工程技术-核科学技术

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

12.50%

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406

审稿时长

13.5 months

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