Y. Tian, W. Zhou, Q. Wang, X. Niu, W. Han, H. Yang, H. Zhang, S. Liao, X. Li, C. Zhao
{"title":"A novel silicon pixel sensor for beam monitoring applications at heavy-ion accelerators","authors":"Y. Tian, W. Zhou, Q. Wang, X. Niu, W. Han, H. Yang, H. Zhang, S. Liao, X. Li, C. Zhao","doi":"10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04039","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper describes a silicon pixel sensor for non-interceptive real-time beam monitoring at heavy-ion accelerators. The total size of the sensor is 4 mm × 5 mm. It has 64 (row) × 120 (column) square pixels, each single of which is in the size of 40 μm × 40 μm. With the exposed sensing pad, this sensor can directly collect the charge in the media over the pixels. The in-pixel circuit mainly consists of a low-noise Charge Sensitive Amplifier (CSA) to establish the signal for the energy reconstruction and a discriminator with a Time-to-Amplitude Converter (TAC) for the Time of Arrival (TOA) measurement. The analog signal from each pixel is accessible through time-shared multiplexing over the entire pixel array. This paper will discuss the design of this IMPix-S1 sensor.","PeriodicalId":507814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Instrumentation","volume":"94 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140777100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Yamamoto, Masao Yoshino, K. Nakanishi, Kei Kamada, Akira Yoshikawa, J. Kataoka
{"title":"A novel method for efficiently measuring the non-proportionality of scintillators between light output and alpha particle energies from 1.8 MeV to 5.2 MeV","authors":"S. Yamamoto, Masao Yoshino, K. Nakanishi, Kei Kamada, Akira Yoshikawa, J. Kataoka","doi":"10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/p04011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/p04011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 It is known that scintillators exhibit non-proportional\u0000 behavior between light output and the energy of gamma photons or\u0000 beta particles. However, the non-proportionality between light\u0000 output in scintillators and the energy of alpha particles has not\u0000 been extensively measured, likely due to the challenges associated\u0000 with preparing alpha particles with varying energies. To address\u0000 this issue, we propose a novel method to modulate the energy of\u0000 alpha particles using an americium-241 (Am-241) source covered with\u0000 different numbers of Mylar films. By irradiating various\u0000 scintillators, including GAGG, GGAG, YAP(Ce), and plastic\u0000 scintillator, with alpha particles of different energies, we\u0000 measured and evaluated the non-proportional response of these\u0000 scintillators. We then compared the measured response as a function\u0000 of incident energy to a simulation, which assumes a proportional\u0000 response to evaluate the non-proportionality. For all the\u0000 scintillators tested, non-proportionality was observed; the light\u0000 output per MeV at 1.8 MeV ranged from 0.60 to 0.81 of the values\u0000 observed at 5.2 MeV. The non-proportional response was largest\u0000 for plastic scintillator (0.60) and smallest for GAGG (0.81). We\u0000 conclude that the proposed method could be an efficient means of\u0000 measuring the non-proportionality of scintillators between light\u0000 output and alpha particle energies","PeriodicalId":507814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Instrumentation","volume":"146 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140797305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The far-field diffraction of a plane wave on a system of randomly and in average periodically located point scatterers: the Debye-Waller factor","authors":"A.Zh. Khachatrian","doi":"10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04037","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The description of the superposition field of a system of point sources with a random and, on average, periodic structure is considered. The description is given in the far field and the point sources are considered as centers of secondary sphere waves generated by an external plane wave. In contrast to the traditional approach, where description of the diffraction pattern is given on the base of wave field averaging, here the intensity is averaged.\u0000\u0000In the framework of the suggested approach the analytic formula of dependence of the average intensity on the direction observation is found. The influence of disorder on the values of intensity of main maximums of a periodic structure is investigated. It is shown that this influence depends on the ordinal numbers of the maximum and in the case of central main maximum this influence vanishes. The question of applicability of the Debye-Weller factor for describing of the statistic of diffracted field is discussed.","PeriodicalId":507814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Instrumentation","volume":"141 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140767418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Zarrella, A. Manna, S. Amaducci, M. Bacak, A. Casanovas, S. Colombi, C. D'Orazio, F. García-Infantes, N. Malekinezhad, M. Marafini, C. Massimi, A. Mengoni, A. Musumarra, N. Patronis, J. Pavón-Rodriguez, M. Pellegriti, R. Spighi, E. Stamati, M. Villa
{"title":"Characterization of the FOOT neutron detectors for nuclear fragmentation measurements at the n_TOF facility","authors":"R. Zarrella, A. Manna, S. Amaducci, M. Bacak, A. Casanovas, S. Colombi, C. D'Orazio, F. García-Infantes, N. Malekinezhad, M. Marafini, C. Massimi, A. Mengoni, A. Musumarra, N. Patronis, J. Pavón-Rodriguez, M. Pellegriti, R. Spighi, E. Stamati, M. Villa","doi":"10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) is an applied nuclear physics experiment with the aim of performing high precision cross section measurements for fragmentation reactions of interest in hadrontherapy and radiation protection in space. The physics program of the experiment foresees a set of measurements with light ion beams, such as C and O, in the energy range of 100–800 MeV/u interacting with tissue-like and shielding material targets. The setup was initially conceived for the detection of charged fragments and, in 2021, the Collaboration started the study of possible solutions for neutron detection. Two detection systems have been proposed: one based on BC-501A liquid scintillators with neutron/γ discrimination capabilities and a system based on BGO crystals operated in phoswich mode. In 2022, a dedicated data acquisition campaign was carried out at the n_TOF facility at CERN to evaluate the capabilities of the two systems. First, the neutron/γ discrimination efficiency of the BC-501A system was studied using radioactive sources. Then, the two systems were placed in the n_TOF experimental area to study their neutron detection efficiency under a well characterized neutron beam. In this work, the first preliminary results concerning the characterization of the two possible neutron detectors of FOOT are presented.","PeriodicalId":507814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Instrumentation","volume":"75 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140756029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Scherl, N. Striebig, K. Hennessy, I. Perić, E. Vilella
{"title":"MightyPix at the LHCb Mighty Tracker — verification\u0000of an HV-CMOS pixel chip's digital readout","authors":"S. Scherl, N. Striebig, K. Hennessy, I. Perić, E. Vilella","doi":"10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/c04045","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 MightyPix is a high voltage complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (HV-CMOS) active pixel\u0000 sensor, currently being developed for the Mighty Tracker, an upgrade proposed for LHCb in\u0000 anticipation of the High Luminosity LHC. To ensure that MightyPix will be able to handle the\u0000 particle hit rates at the Mighty Tracker, which are expected to reach\u0000 17 MHz/cm2, simulations of the chip's digital readout mechanism were\u0000 performed. Using simulated particle hits the chip's performance within the LHCb environment is\u0000 characterised. For this, a behavioural model of the first prototype, MightyPix1, representing the\u0000 analogue pixel matrix, together with the synthesised digital logic is used. Simulation results\u0000 show the MightyPix1 readout mechanism having an efficiency over 99 % up to\u0000 20 MHz/cm2. The bottleneck was found to be the speed at which the hits are read\u0000 out. This yielded new design ideas to improve the readout for MightyPix2, leading to an efficiency\u0000 of over 99 % up to 30 MHz/cm2.","PeriodicalId":507814,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Instrumentation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140756433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}