Commissioning of the PRIOR proton microscope
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Technion, Haifa (Israel)
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russia)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka (Russia)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany); Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)
Recently, a new high energy proton microscopy facility PRIOR (Proton Microscope for FAIR Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research) has been designed, constructed, and successfully commissioned at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt, Germany). As a result of the experiments with 3.5–4.5 GeV proton beams delivered by the heavy ion synchrotron SIS-18 of GSI, 30 μm spatial and 10 ns temporal resolutions of the proton microscope have been demonstrated. A new pulsed power setup for studying properties of matter under extremes has been developed for the dynamic commissioning of the PRIOR facility. This study describes the PRIOR setup as well as the results of the first static and dynamic protonradiography experiments performed at GSI.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 1132-11.14/2011; 05K10RD1, 05P12RDRBK; AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1255161
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-16-20477; RSINAK
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 87, Issue 2; ISSN 0034-6748
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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