1. X-rays, γ-rays and Proton Beam Monitoring with Multimode Nitrogen-doped Optical Fiber
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Girard, S., Di Francesca, D., Morana, A., Hoehr, C., Paillet, P., Duzenli, C., Kerboub, N., Reghioua, I., Vecchi, G. Li, Alessi, A., Duhamel, O., Trinczek, M., Marin, E., Boukenter, A., Ouerdane, Y., Mekki, J., Alia, R. Garcia, Kadi, Y., Brugger, M., Laboratoire Hubert Curien [Saint Etienne] (LHC), Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), TRIUMF [Vancouver], DAM Île-de-France (DAM/DIF), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), British Columbia Cancer Research Centre [British Columbia, Canada], Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Laboratoire Hubert Curien (LHC), and Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,[PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat] - Abstract
International audience; We investigated the potential of a multimode (50 μ m core diameter) nitrogen doped silica-based optical fiber for X-rays, protons and γ-rays radiation detection and dosimetry. X-rays results confirm that this N-doped fiber presents a strong radioluminescence (RL) around 550 nm when exposed to radiation. The RL observed from a few cm long sample linearly depends on the dose rate at least in the 1 mGy/s to 50 Gy/s range. Low dose rate γ-ray tests demonstrate the radiation detection at dose rate as low as 40 μ Gy/s with a 2 m long fiber sample. This fiber is also associated with an optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) when exposed to a 1064 nm laser light post-irradiation. This OSL signature provides shortly after the irradiation a precise estimation of the accumulated dose at least in the 1 Gy to 10 kGy range. Under proton exposure, we benchmarked the performances of the N-doped fiber with the ones of a conventional Markus chamber used by the TRIUMF proton-therapy team. This comparison highlights the potential of the small-size N-doped fiber to partially overcome the known limitations of commercial fiber-based dosimeters for medical applications. The obtained results are very promising for the future design of more complex spatially-resolved beam monitoring systems.
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- 2018