Measuring momentum for charged particle tomography

Morris, Christopher; Fraser, Andrew Mcleod; Schultz, Larry Joe; Borozdin, Konstantin N; Klimenko, Alexei Vasilievich; Sossong, Michael James; Blanpied, Gary

Title: Measuring momentum for charged particle tomography

Patent · Tue Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2010

OSTI ID:1014742

Morris, Christopher ^[1]; Fraser, Andrew Mcleod ^[1]; Schultz, Larry Joe ^[1]; Borozdin, Konstantin N ^[1]; Klimenko, Alexei Vasilievich ^[2]; Sossong, Michael James ^[1]; Blanpied, Gary ^[3]

Los Alamos, NM
Maynard, MA
Lexington, SC

Methods, apparatus and systems for detecting charged particles and obtaining tomography of a volume by measuring charged particles including measuring the momentum of a charged particle passing through a charged particle detector. Sets of position sensitive detectors measure scattering of the charged particle. The position sensitive detectors having sufficient mass to cause the charged particle passing through the position sensitive detectors to scatter in the position sensitive detectors. A controller can be adapted and arranged to receive scattering measurements of the charged particle from the charged particle detector, determine at least one trajectory of the charged particle from the measured scattering; and determine at least one momentum measurement of the charged particle from the at least one trajectory. The charged particle can be a cosmic ray-produced charged particle, such as a cosmic ray-produced muon. The position sensitive detectors can be drift cells, such as gas-filled drift tubes.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Assignee:: Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)

Patent Number(s):: 7,838,841

Application Number:: US Patent Application 11/977,410

OSTI ID:: 1014742

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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