Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers
The design of a detector for tracking charged particles is presented together with the characterization techniques developed to extract the main design specifications. The goals for the final detector are to achieve real-time imaging performances, a large detection area, and a high spatial resolutio...
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| author | D. Lo Presti D. L. Bonanno F. Longhitano C. Pugliatti S. Aiello G. A. P. Cirrone V. Giordano E. Leonora N. Randazzo S. Reito F. Romano G. V. Russo M. Russo V. Sipala C. Stancampiano C. Ventura |
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| description | The design of a detector for tracking charged particles is presented together with the characterization techniques developed to extract the main design specifications. The goals for the final detector are to achieve real-time imaging performances, a large detection area, and a high spatial resolution, particularly suitable for medical imaging applications. This paper describes the prototype of the tracker plane, which has a 20 × 20 cm2 sensitive area consisting of two crossed ribbons of 500 μm square scintillating fibers. The information about the hit position extracted real-time tracker in an innovative way, using a reduced number of the read-out channels to obtain a very large detection area but with moderate costs and complexity. The performances of the tracker have been investigated using β sources, cosmic rays, and a 62 MeV proton beam. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c3d7a013f921414d9966db47bfbef0982025-08-20T02:18:57ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652014-01-01201410.1155/2014/692908692908Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating FibersD. Lo Presti0D. L. Bonanno1F. Longhitano2C. Pugliatti3S. Aiello4G. A. P. Cirrone5V. Giordano6E. Leonora7N. Randazzo8S. Reito9F. Romano10G. V. Russo11M. Russo12V. Sipala13C. Stancampiano14C. Ventura15Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyLaboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyLaboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), 95123 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, ItalyUniversity of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 95123 Catania, ItalyThe design of a detector for tracking charged particles is presented together with the characterization techniques developed to extract the main design specifications. The goals for the final detector are to achieve real-time imaging performances, a large detection area, and a high spatial resolution, particularly suitable for medical imaging applications. This paper describes the prototype of the tracker plane, which has a 20 × 20 cm2 sensitive area consisting of two crossed ribbons of 500 μm square scintillating fibers. The information about the hit position extracted real-time tracker in an innovative way, using a reduced number of the read-out channels to obtain a very large detection area but with moderate costs and complexity. The performances of the tracker have been investigated using β sources, cosmic rays, and a 62 MeV proton beam.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/692908 |
| spellingShingle | D. Lo Presti D. L. Bonanno F. Longhitano C. Pugliatti S. Aiello G. A. P. Cirrone V. Giordano E. Leonora N. Randazzo S. Reito F. Romano G. V. Russo M. Russo V. Sipala C. Stancampiano C. Ventura Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers Advances in High Energy Physics |
| title | Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers |
| title_full | Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers |
| title_fullStr | Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers |
| title_short | Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers |
| title_sort | development of a real time large area high spatial resolution particle tracker based on scintillating fibers |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/692908 |
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