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- Title
Development of a Real-Time, Large Area, High Spatial Resolution Particle Tracker Based on Scintillating Fibers.
- Authors
Lo Presti, D.; Bonanno, D. L.; Longhitano, F.; Pugliatti, C.; Aiello, S.; Cirrone, G. A. P.; Giordano, V.; Leonora, E.; Randazzo, N.; Reito, S.; Romano, F.; Russo, G. V.; Russo, M.; Sipala, V.; Stancampiano, C.; Ventura, C.
- Abstract
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 x 20 cm2 sensitive area consisting of two crossed ribbons of 500 μmsquare scintillating fibers. The information about the hit position extracted real-time tracker in an innovative way, using a reduced number of the readout 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 62MeV proton beam.
- Subjects
REAL-time control; PARTICLE tracks (Nuclear physics); SCINTILLATORS; QUANTUM theory; DIAGNOSTIC imaging
- Publication
Advances in High Energy Physics, 2014, p1
- ISSN
1687-7357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2014/692908