1. Development of a Portable Pixelated Fast-Neutron Imaging Panel.
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Heath, Matthew R., Canion, Bonni, Fabris, Lorenzo, Garishvili, Irakli, Glenn, Andy, Hausladen, Jennifer U., Hausladen, Paul, Lee, Donnie, McConchie, Seth, Nakae, Les, Newby, Jason, and Wurtz, Ron
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IMAGING systems ,NUCLEAR counters ,LIGHT emitting diodes ,PHOTOMULTIPLIERS ,SCINTILLATORS - Abstract
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing a portable, pixelated fast-neutron imaging panel for associated particle imaging (API). The panel consists of new and commercially available hardware. Unlike the current generation of API-based neutron imaging systems, this panel is intended to be field deployable. A $30\times30$ array of optically isolated 1 cm $\times$ 1 cm $\times$ 5 cm pulse shape discriminating (PSD) plastic scintillator pixels are optically coupled to a $6\times6$ array of position-sensitive photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) allowing each pixel to be resolved. Each quadrant of $3\times3$ PMTs recombines the 576 PMT anodes using a resistive charge division network to achieve four-corner readout that preserves the average position of the detected light. The design of the panel and initial testing of the light collection and position encoding electronics is presented herein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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