Absolute calibration of GafChromic film for very high flux laser driven ion beams

Bin, J. H.; Ji, Q.; Seidl, P. A.; Raftrey, D.; Steinke, S.; Persaud, A.; Nakamura, K.; Gonsalves, A.; Leemans, W. P.; Schenkel, T.

doi:10.1063/1.5086822

Absolute calibration of GafChromic film for very high flux laser driven ion beams

Journal Article · Fri May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5086822· OSTI ID:1650060

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)

We report on the calibration of GafChromic HD-v2 radiochromic film in the extremely high dose regime up to 100 kGy together with very high dose rates up to 7 × 10¹¹ Gy/s. The absolute calibration was done with nanosecond ion bunches at the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II particle accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and covers a broad dose dynamic range over three orders of magnitude. We then applied the resulting calibration curve to calibrate a laser driven ion experiment performed on the BELLA petawatt laser facility at LBNL. Here, we reconstructed the spatial and energy resolved distributions of the laser-accelerated proton beams. The resulting proton distribution is in fair agreement with the spectrum that was measured with a Thomson spectrometer in combination with a microchannel plate detector.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1650060

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1510550

Journal Information:: Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal Name: Review of Scientific Instruments Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 90; ISSN 0034-6748

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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