Position sensitive ΔE detector

Author

Bengis, D.V.H. ; Sealock, R.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

574

Abstract

A method is described for simultaneously measuring the interaction position and energy loss in a thin scintillator for energetic charged particles. Wave shifting optical fibers embedded in a scintillator combined with a Hamamatsu R2486 crossed wire anode, position sensitive photomultiplier tube are used. A prototype detector gave 2.4 mm FWHM position resolution for minimum ionizing cosmic rays. Efforts to extract a single pulse linear in position from the phototube pulses using neural networks are described

Keywords

cosmic rays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; neural nets; photomultipliers; position sensitive particle detectors; solid scintillation detectors; FWHM position resolution; Hamamatsu R2486 crossed wire anode; energetic charged particles; energy loss; interaction position; minimum ionizing cosmic rays; neural networks; phototube pulses; position sensitive ΔE detector; position sensitive photomultiplier tube; prototype detector; shifting optical fibers; thin scintillator; Current measurement; Energy loss; Energy measurement; Loss measurement; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Particle measurements; Position measurement; Position sensitive particle detectors; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474539

Filename

474539