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Liquid scintillation counting

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Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari

Gamma-ray spectroscopy is an effective technique for radioactive material characterization, routine inventory verification, nuclear safeguards, health physics, and source search scenarios. Gamma-ray spectrometers typically cannot be operated in the immedia ...

MDPI2024

Method for manufacturing an active structure for a radiation detector and polymeric mold for the method

Arnaud Bertsch, Fabrizio Carbone, Alessandro Mapelli, Veronica Leccese, Michele Caldara

A method for manufacturing a scintillation detector structure including the steps of forming a plurality of first structures into a surface of a substrate to form a patterned substrate, filling the plurality of first structures and covering the surface of ...

2023

Gamma-Blind Fast Neutron Detection for Spent Nuclear Fuel Characterization

Alexander Wolfertz

In this thesis, the development and testing of a system for measuring the axial distribution of fast neutron emission of spent nuclear fuel rods is presented. Emphasis is placed on the novel fast neutron detector used which can reliably work in extremely h ...

EPFL2023

Quantum engineering and detection of advanced radiation beams

Veronica Leccese

Controlling and shaping radiation beams is fundamental for a better understanding of radiation-matter interaction and advancing experimental techniques for material characterization at high spatial resolution. In particular, the current trend in the miniat ...

EPFL2023

Attaining the PeV frontier of the cosmic ray spectrum in space with HERD

Chiara Perrina

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection facility (HERD) is a calorimetric experiment planned to be launched in 2027. It will be operational for at least 10 years on board the China Space Station. With HERD we will measure the energy flux of cosmic proto ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

X-ray imaging detector for radiological applications adapted to the context and requirements of low- and middle-income countries

Jean-Philippe Thiran, René Salathé, Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Hubert Lucien Blanchard, Sébastien Emmanuel Blanc

This paper describes the development of a novel medical x-ray imaging system adapted to the needs and constraints of low- and middle-income countries. The developed system is based on an indirect conversion chain: a scintillator plate produces visible ligh ...

2022

A Fast Ion Loss Detector for the TCV Tokamak

Lorenzo Stipani

A Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) was designed, assembled, installed and commissioned for TCV. This is a radially positionable, scintillator based detector that provides information on the 2D fast-ion velocity space lost at the probe's location. The collecte ...

EPFL2021

A Sensor Network Architecture for Digital SiPM-Based PET Systems

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia

Digital silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) have emerged in the recent past as a viable low cost alternative to photomultiplier tubes in positron emission tomography systems, providing multiple timestamps, energy and scintillation coordinates at high spatial ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Dynamic range extension for photon counting arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Confocal microscopes use photomultiplier tubes and hybrid detectors due to their large dynamic range, which typically exceeds the one of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The latter, due to their photon counting operation, are usually limited to an o ...

2018

The new versatile general purpose surface-muon instrument (GPS) based on silicon photomultipliers for μSR measurements on a continuous-wave beam

Kamil Sedlák

We report on the design and commissioning of a new spectrometer for muon-spin relaxation/rotation studies installed at the Swiss Muon Source (SμS) of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland). This new instrument is essentially a new design and replac ...

2017

Development of TORCH readout electronics for customised MCPs

Christoph Frei

The TORCH detector is being developed for low-momentum particle identification, combining time-of-flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve charged particle pi/K/p separation up to 10 GeV/c over a flight distance of 10m. This requires a timing resolution ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Microfluidic Scintillation Detectors for High Energy Physics

Pietro Maoddi

This thesis deals with the development and study of microfluidic scintillation detectors, a technology of recent introduction for the detection of high energy particles. Most of the interest for such devices comes from the use of a liquid scintillator, whi ...

EPFL2015

Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator

Christoph Frei

CF4 is used as a Cherenkov gas radiator in one of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors at the LHCb experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. CF4 is well known to have a high scintillation photon yield in the near and far VUV, UV and in the visible wave ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Advances in digital SiPMs and their application in biomedical imaging

Edoardo Charbon

Similar to analog silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), digital SiPMs (dSiPMs) essentially consist of an array of single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs). Instead of a passive quench resistor, however, an active quenching circuit is locally integrated with ...

2015

Scintillation detectors based on silicon microfluidic channels

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Pietro Maoddi

Microfluidic channels obtained by SU-8 photolithography and filled with liquid scintillators were recently demonstrated to be an interesting technology for the implementation of novel particle detectors. The main advantages of this approach are the intrins ...

Institute of Physics2014

G-APDs in Cherenkov astronomy: The FACT camera

Mathieu Ribordy, Thomas Günther Bretz

Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (G-APD, SiPM) are a much discussed alternative to photomultiplier tubes in Cherenkov astronomy. The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) collaboration builds a camera based on a hexagonal array of 1440 G-APDs and has now ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Development and Studies of Novel Microfabricated Radiation Hard Scintillation Detectors With High Spatial Resolution

Philippe Renaud, Sébastien Jiguet, Alessandro Mapelli, Noelia Vico Triviño

A new type of scintillation detector is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by coupling microfluidic channels filled with a liquid scintillator to photodetectors. Easy ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Scintillation Particle Detectors Based on Plastic Optical Fibres and Microfluidics

Alessandro Mapelli

This thesis presents the design, development, and experimental validation of two types of scintillation particle detectors with high spatial resolution. The first one is based on the well established scintillating fibre technology. It will complement the A ...

EPFL2011

Novel radiation hard microfabricated scintillation detectors with high spatial resolution

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet, Noelia Vico Triviño

A novel liquid scintillation detector with high spatial resolution is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by filling microfluidic channels with an organic liquid scint ...

Elsevier2010

Scintillation particle detection based on microfluidics

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet, Noelia Vico Triviño

A novel type of particle detector based on scintillation, with precise spatial resolution and high radiation hardness, is being studied. It consists of a single microfluidic channel filled with a liquid scintillator and is designed to define an array of sc ...

Elsevier2010