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Design and Characterization of a Real Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper presents the design flow of a detector for tracking charged particles together with the characterization techniques developed to extract the main design specifications. The goals for the final detector are to achieve real-time imaging, a large detection area and a high spatial resolution particularly suitable for medical imaging applications. The main concepts have been patented by the INFN. This paper describes the prototype tracker, which has a 20x20 cm2 sensitive area consisting of two crossed ribbons of 500 µm square scintillating fibers. The track position information is real-time extracted in an innovative way, using a reduced number of read-out channels to obtain a very large detection area but with moderate costs and complexity. The performance of the tracker has been investigated using s sources, cosmic rays, and a 62 MeV proton beam.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
business.industry
Detector
Design flow
Pharmaceutical Science
Cosmic ray
Tracking (particle physics)
Charged particle
Optics
Complementary and alternative medicine
Medical imaging
Electronic engineering
Pharmacology (medical)
business
Image resolution
Beam (structure)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....13da9987e076c6592d174cf7991acd5d