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Room-temperature performance of 3 mm-thick cadmium-zinc-telluride pixel detectors with sub-millimetre pixelization.
2020
Cadmium–zinc–telluride (CZT) pixel detectors represent a consolidated choice for the development of room-temperature spectroscopic X-ray imagers, finding important applications in medical imaging, often as detection modules of a variety of new SPECT and CT systems. Detectors with 3–5 mm thicknesses are able to efficiently detect X-rays up to 140 keV giving reasonable room-temperature energy resolution. In this work, the room-temperature performance of 3 mm-thick CZT pixel detectors, recently developed at IMEM/CNR of Parma (Italy), is presented. Sub-millimetre detector arrays with pixel pitch less than 500 µm were fabricated. The detectors are characterized by good room-temperature performan…
Manufacturing an active X-ray mirror prototype in thin glass
2015
Adjustable mirrors equipped with piezo actuators are commonly used at synchrotron and free-electron laser (FEL) beamlines, in order to optimize their focusing properties and sometimes to shape the intensity distribution of the focal spot with the desired profile. Unlike them, X-ray mirrors for astronomy are much thinner in order to enable nesting and reduce the areal mass, and the application of piezo actuators acting normally to the surface appears much more difficult. There remains the possibility to correct the deformations using thin patches that exert a tangential strain on the rear side of the mirror: some research groups are already at work on this approach. The technique reported he…
Luminescence spectroscopy under synchrotron radiation: From SUPERLUMI to FINESTLUMI
2020
Abstract Luminescence spectroscopy under synchrotron radiation excitation is the unique tool for materials characterization. In the current work we are reporting recent activity in this research field implemented in the Finnish-Estonian beamline (FinEstBeAMS) which is installed at the 1.5 GeV storage ring of the MAX IV Laboratory at Lund, Sweden. It has been designed to cover an unusually wide energy range from ultraviolet (4.3 eV) to soft X-rays (1500 eV), which is perfectly suited for luminescence spectroscopy experiments. The past development and the present technical parameters of the luminescence experimental stations FINESTLUMI of FinEstBeAMS beamline are described. The comparison of …
Study of the response of the ATLAS central calorimeter to pions of energies from 3 to 9 GeV
2009
Çetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) A fully instrumented slice of the ATLAS central detector was exposed to test beams from the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) at CERN in 2004. In this paper, the response of the central calorimeters to pions with energies in the range between 3 and 9 GeV is presented. The linearity and the resolution of the combined calorimetry (electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters) was measured and compared to the prediction of a detector simulation program using the toolkit Geant 4.
Study of energy response and resolution of the ATLAS barrel calorimeter to hadrons of energies from 20 to 350 GeV
2010
A fully instrumented slice of the ATLAS detector was exposed to test beams from the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) at CERN in 2004. In this paper, the results of the measurements of the response of the barrel calorimeter to hadrons with energies in the range 20 to 350 GeV and beam impact points and angles corresponding to pseudorapidity values in the range 0.2-0.65 are reported. The results are compared to the predictions of a simulation program using the Geant 4 toolkit.
Room-Temperature X-ray response of cadmium-zinc-Telluride pixel detectors grown by the vertical Bridgman technique
2020
In this work, the spectroscopic performances of new cadmium–zinc–telluride (CZT) pixel detectors recently developed at IMEM-CNR of Parma (Italy) are presented. Sub-millimetre arrays with pixel pitch less than 500 µm, based on boron oxide encapsulated vertical Bridgman grown CZT crystals, were fabricated. Excellent room-temperature performance characterizes the detectors even at high-bias-voltage operation (9000 V cm−1), with energy resolutions (FWHM) of 4% (0.9 keV), 1.7% (1 keV) and 1.3% (1.6 keV) at 22.1, 59.5 and 122.1 keV, respectively. Charge-sharing investigations were performed with both uncollimated and collimated synchrotron X-ray beams with particular attention to the mitigation o…
Performance and characterization of the FinEstBeAMS beamline at the MAX IV Laboratory
2021
European Regional Development Fund (grant No. TK-141 HiTechDevices 2014-2020.4.01.15-0011 to University of Tartu; grant No. MAX-TEENUS 2014-2020.4.01.20-0278 to University of Tartu; grant No. Eesti Kiirekanal SLOFY11156T/1 to University of Tartu); Estonian Research Council (grant No. PRG-629 to University of Tartu); Jane & Aatos Erkko Foundation (grant No. SOFUS); Business Finland (grant No. 1464/31/2019); Academy of Finland (grant No. 319042; grant No. 326461; grant No. 326406; grant No. 320165); University of Oulu; University of Turku; Tampere University; University of Tartu.
Forward production of charged pions with incident protons on nuclear targets at the CERN Proton Synchrotron
2009
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On the use of grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) in the morphological study of ion-implanted materials.
2004
Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering has become a widely used technique for the morphological analysis of surface systems. Here it is show how this technique can be applied to a buried system, like metallic clusters in glass obtained by ion implantation. The optimization of the data-collection geometry is described as well as the details of the quantitative data analysis. An experimental example on Cu + Au-implanted glasses shows the potentiality of the technique.
Optical properties of oxygen-deficiency related centers in amorphous SiO 2 investigated by synchrotron radiation
2002
We report an investigation of the photoluminescence activity at 4.4 v eV in g -irradiated silica under UV and vacuum-UV excitation by synchrotron radiation. Our results evidence two iso-energetic contributions which can be related to two oxygen-deficient centers variants: ODC(I) and ODC(II). The first, excited within the 7.6 v eV absorption, is detected only at low temperature and has a lifetime of about 2 v ns. The second exhibits two excitation maxima peaked at 5.0 and 6.8 v eV, its amplitude decreases by a factor 2 on increasing the temperature whereas its lifetime has a value of about 4 v ns. These features give new insights on the excitation pathway of the 4.4 v eV emission involving t…