Large-grain scintillator screens for proton radiography

C L Morris; J C Allison; Steven Cool; C Cude-Woods; M S Freeman; K J McClellan; F G Mariam; W Z Meijer; L P Neukirch; M Schanz; J L Schmidt 4th; E Smith; D Tupa; Z Tang; Z Wang

doi:10.1063/5.0206169

Large-grain scintillator screens for proton radiography

Rev Sci Instrum. 2024 Aug 1;95(8):083707. doi: 10.1063/5.0206169.

Authors

C L Morris¹, J C Allison¹, Steven Cool², C Cude-Woods¹, M S Freeman¹, K J McClellan¹, F G Mariam¹, W Z Meijer¹, L P Neukirch¹, M Schanz³, J L Schmidt 4th¹, E Smith¹, D Tupa¹, Z Tang¹, Z Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
² DMI/Reading Imaging, Reading, Massachusetts 01867, USA.
³ GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany.

PMID: 39133088
DOI: 10.1063/5.0206169

Abstract

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.