Large-grain scintillator screens for proton radiography
Protons from the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center have been used for pulsed radiography in dynamic experiments for the past 25 years. Pulses of protons are imaged on a scintillator, and the light from these images is captured by fast gated cameras. The need for fast, bright scintillators has led to some compromises in image quality due to tiling the scintillators and backgrounds with totally internally reflected light. We show how large-grain scintillator screens, made using a thin plastic binder, solve these problems.
Authors
- Zhehui Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7826-4063)
- Levi P. Neukirch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3571-2852)
- Kenneth J. McClellan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3503-6754)
- D. Tupa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6265-5016)
- M. S. Freeman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3496-0419)
- C. Cude-Woods (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0557-8189)
- Steven Cool
- W. Meijer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7608-2378)
- Erick Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2152-5546)
- Z. Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7328-3086)
- Fesseha Mariam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6016-6147)
- J. Allison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6126-8196)
- John L. Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4459-9762)
- C. L. Morris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2141-0255)
- M. Schanz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4418-7191)
Institutions
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0206169
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Space Technology and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.42
Funders
- National Nuclear Security Administration