分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2024-03-08
摘要: COMET is a leading experiment to search for coherent conversion of $ mu^- mathrm{N} to e^- mathrm{N}$ with a high-intensity pulsed muon beamline, produced by the innovative slow extraction techniques. Therefore, it is critical to measure the characteristics of the muon beam. We set up a Muon Beam Monitor (MBM), where scintillation fibers (SciFi) weaved in the cross shape are coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPM), to measure the spatial profile and timing structure of the extracted muon beam for COMET. The MBM detector has been tested successfully with a proton beamline in China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) and taken data with good performance in the commissioning run called COMET Phase-$ alpha$. Experience of the MBM development, such as the mechanical structure and electronics readout, and its beam measurement results will be shared.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 分类: 核科学技术 >> 核仪器、仪表 提交时间: 2024-02-07
摘要: A new measurement method for the spatial distribution of neutron beam flux in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is being developed based on the two-dimensional Micromegas detector. To address the issue of long processing time in traditional offline position reconstruction methods, this paper proposes an FPGA-based online position reconstruction method, grounded in the micro time projection chamber principle. This method encapsulates key technical aspects: self-adaptive serial link technique built upon the dynamical adjustment of delay chain length, fast sorting and coordinate matching technique based on the mapping between signal timestamps and random access memory (RAM) addresses, and precise start point merging technique utilizing a circular combined RAM. The performance test of the self-adaptive serial link shows the bit error rate of the link is better than 10^-12 at a confidence level of 99%, ensuring reliable data transmission. The combined experiment of the readout electronics and the Micromegas detector shows a spatial resolution of approximately 1.4 mm, surpassing the current method's resolution level of 5 mm. The beam experiment confirms that the readout electronics system can obtain the flux spatial distribution of neutron beam online, thus validating the feasibility of the position reconstruction method. The online position reconstruction method avoids traditional methods such as bubble sorting and traversal searching, simplifying the design of logic firmware and reducing the time complexity from O(n^2) to O(n). This study contributes to the advancement in measuring neutron beam flux for BNCT.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: A compact X-ray detector based on the lutetium yttrium oxyorthosilicate scintillator (LYSO) and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) has been designed and fabricated for the hard X-ray diagnosis on the HL_2A and HL_2M Tokamak devices. The LYSO scintillator and SiPM in small dimensions were combined in a heat shrink tube package, making the detector compact and integrative. The Monte Carlo particle transport simulation tool, Geant4, was utilized for the design of the detector for the hard X-ray from 10 keV to 200 keV and the best structure scheme was presented. Finally, the detector was used to measure the photon spectrum of a 137Cs gamma source with a pre-amplifier and a multichannel amplitude analyzer. The measured spectrum is consistent with the theoretic spectrum, it has shown that the energy resolution of the detector is less than 14.8% at an energy of 662 keV.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: The Dragon-I linear induction accelerator (LIA) at China Academy of Engineering Physics generates 20 MeV flash X-rays mainly for radiography applications in fluid dynamics. Its spectral information is quite important for diagnostic X-ray imaging applications, but because of its short pulse and great radiation intensity, direct measurement is impossible. In this work, we propose a new method based on transmission measurements to obtain the flash X-ray spectrum. Pure iron cylinders were used as attenuation material, and alanine dosimeters were attached on their rear bottom to record the dose after different degrees of attenuation. Iterative least square method was used to unfold the spectrum, while Geant4 Monte Carlo code was used to simulate the X-ray spectrum. The unfolded spectrum and the simulated spectrum have a high degree of consistency, with the reduced chi-square value of 0.044. This shows that the method is reliable in estimating megavoltage high-intensity X-ray spectrum.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: A fully digital beam position monitoring system (DBPM) has been designed for SSRF (Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility). As analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is a crucial part in the DBPM system, the sampling methods should be studied to achieve optimum performance. Different sampling modes were used and compared through tests. Long term variation among four sampling channels, which would introduce errors in beam position measurement, is studied, too. An interleaved distribution scheme was designed to address this issue. To evaluate the sampling methods, in-beam tests were conducted in SSRF. Test results indicate that with proper sampling methods, a turn-by-turn (TBT) position resolution better than 1 m is achieved, and the slow-acquisition (SA) position resolution is improved from 4.28 m to 0.17 m.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ADCs (analog-to-digital converters) that are radiation-tolerant, high speed, high density and low power will be used in upgrading the LAr (liquid argon) calorimeter front end (FE) trigger readout electronics. Total ionization dose (TID) and single event effect (SEE) of the COTS ADCs should be characterized. In our initial TID test, 17 COTS ADCs from different manufacturers with dynamic range and sampling rate meeting requirements of the FE electronics were checked, and the ADS5272 of Texas Instruments (TI) was the best performer of all. Another interesting feature of ADS5272 is its 6.5 clock cycles latency, which is the shortest of all the 17 candidates. Based on the TID performance, we designed an SEE evaluation system for ADS5272, which allows us to further assess its radiation tolerance. In this paper, we present a detailed design of ADS5272 SEE evaluation system and show the effectiveness of this system while evaluating ADS5272 SEE characteristics in multiple irradiation tests. According to TID and SEE test results, ADS5272 was chosen to be implemented in the full-size LAr Trigger Digitizer Board (LTDB) demonstrator, which will be installed on ATLAS calorimeter during the 2014 Long Shutdown 1 (LS1).
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: In order to realize on-line real-time measurement of dynamic and time-sharing neutron spectrum of HL-2A, a tokamak fusion neutron spectrometer based on PXI bus was developed. It consists of electronics system and eight thermal neutron detectors, namely SP9 3He proportional counter, embedded in eight polyethylene spheres in different diameters. Response function of the eight polyethylene spheres was the key to calculate the neutron spectrum accurately. In this paper, response function of the eight polyethylene spheres is simulated by adopting Geant4 code, and neutron counts from an 241Am-Be neutron source are measured by the eight detectors. The calculated spectrum of the Am-Be neutron is accurate in 02 MeV region, and is similar to the theoretical spectrum. The tokamak fusion neutron spectrometer was used in HL-2A device to monitor the dynamic neutron spectrum of HL-2A on-line and real-time.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: In order to realize the on-line real-time measurement of neutron spectrum of ITER fusion, this paper presents a multi-sphere spectrometer system which consists of eight thermal neutron detectors, namely SP9 3He proportional counter, embedded in eight different diameter polyethylene spheres. The response function of eight polyethylene spheres of multi-sphere neutron spectrometer was calculated after the simulation of the neutron transport processes in multi-sphere spectrometer by adopting software Geant4. The peak of the response function is in the low energy region for smaller diameter polyethylene sphere. As the polyethylene sphere diameter increased, the peak of the response function moves to the high energy region. The experimental calibration adopts 241Am-Be neutron source. The relative error between normalized data of experiment 4 solid angle counts and normalized data of simulated detection efficiency of 4in to 8in polyethylene sphere is from 1.152% to 12.222%.The experimental results verify the response function of the simulation. All these results provide a theoretical and experimental basis for solving the on-line real-time neutron spectrum of ITER fusion.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: This article presents a prototype of beam position and phase measurement (BPPM) electronics designed for the LINAC in China Accelerator Driven Sub-critical system (ADS). The signals received from the Beam Position Monitor (BPM) detectors are narrow pulses with a repetition frequency of 162.5 MHz and a dynamic range more than 40 dB. Based on the high-speed high-resolution Analog-to-Digital conversion technique, the input RF signals are directly converted to In-phase and Quadrature-phase (IQ) streams through under-sampling, which simplifies both the analog and digital processing circuits. All signal processing is integrated in one single FPGA, in which real-time beam position, phase and current can be obtained. A series of simulations and tests have been conducted to evaluate the performance. Initial test results indicate that this prototype achieves a phase resolution better than 0.1 degree and a position resolution better than 20 m over a 40 dB dynamic range with the bandwidth of 780 kHz, which is well beyond the application requirements.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: In this paper, a high precision vernier delay line (VDL) TDC (Time-to-Digital Convertor) in an actel flash-based Field-Programmable-Gate-Arrays A3PE1500 is implemented, achieving a resolution of 16.4-ps root mean square value or 42-ps averaged bin size. The TDC has a dead time of about 200 ns while the dynamic range is 655.36 s. The double delay lines method is employed to cut the dead time in half to improve its performance. As the bin size of the TDC is dependent on temperature, a compensation algorithm is adopted as temperature drift correction, and the TDC shows satisfying performance in a temperature range from 5C to +55C.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: The experimental muon source on China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is expected to be a high intensity (105 +/s) surface muon source with a small beam spot of 4-cm diameter. For a practical application of this muon source, we are devoting to develop the first pulsed SR spectrometer in China. In this paper, the performance of plastic scintillators in the SR spectrometer is studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The processes such as positron energy deposition, scintillation photons production, light propagation and photon-electron conversion are carefully considered. According to the results, an optimal dimension of the plastic scintillator is proposed using for our future spectrometer, which has a long-strip shape with the dimension variation range of 5060 mm length, 58 mm height, and 1012 mm width. Finally, we can build a spectrometer with a count rate up to 104e+/s by 100120 forward and backward segmental detectors in total. The simulation could serve as an important guide for spectrometer construction.