Investigation of Compton scattering for gamma beam intensity measurements and perspectives at ELI-NP

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Title: Investigation of Compton scattering for gamma beam intensity measurements and perspectives at ELI-NP

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Compton γ-ray sources have been used for over 30 years with new facilities being under construction or proposed. The gamma beam system under implementation at the Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics facility in Romania will deliver brilliant γ-ray beams with energies up to 19.5 MeV. Several instruments for measuring the parameters of the γ-ray beam are under development at ELI-NP. One of these instruments based on a High Purity Germanium detector is typically used for beam energy measurements at other facilities. Here we investigate the use of a High Purity Germanium detector to continuously monitor the intensity of the ELI-NP gamma beam by measuring the inelastic scattering of photons. This technique relies on both experimental and simulated data and it has been successfully tested during a recent experiment at the High Intensity γ-ray Source facility.

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Turturica, G. V. ^[1]; Matei, Catalin ^[2]; Pappalardo, A. ^[2]; Balabanski, D. L. ^[2]; Chesnevskaya, S. ^[2]; Iancu, V. ^[2]; Ur, C. A. ^[2]; Karwowski, H. J. ^[3];

^[4];

^[4]; Walter, D. ^[5]; Diget, C. Aa. ^[6]; Frost-Schenk, J. ^[6]; Munch, M. ^[7]; Guardo, G. L. ^[8]; La Cognata, M. ^[9]; Pizzone, R. G. ^[9]; Rapisarda, G. G. ^[9]; Chae, K. Y. ^[10] more »

Horia Hulubei National R&D Inst. for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele (Romania); Univ. of Bucharest (Romania)
Horia Hulubei National R&D Inst. for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele (Romania)
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab, Durham, NC (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States)
Univ. of York (United Kingdom)
Aarhus Univ. (Denmark)
Horia Hulubei National R&D Inst. for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele (Romania); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Catania (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Catania (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS)
Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Republic of Korea)

Publication Date:: 2018-12-18

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1566950

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 921; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; ELI-NP; y-ray beam; HPGe; GEANT4; Compton scattering

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                    Turturica, G. V., Matei, Catalin, Pappalardo, A., Balabanski, D. L., Chesnevskaya, S., Iancu, V., Ur, C. A., Karwowski, H. J., Chipps, Kelly A., Febbraro, Michael T., Pain, Steven D., Walter, D., Diget, C. Aa., Frost-Schenk, J., Munch, M., Guardo, G. L., La Cognata, M., Pizzone, R. G., Rapisarda, G. G., Chae, K. Y., Kim, M. J., and Kwag, M. S. Investigation of Compton scattering for gamma beam intensity measurements and perspectives at ELI-NP.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Turturica, G. V., Matei, Catalin, Pappalardo, A., Balabanski, D. L., Chesnevskaya, S., Iancu, V., Ur, C. A., Karwowski, H. J., Chipps, Kelly A., Febbraro, Michael T., Pain, Steven D., Walter, D., Diget, C. Aa., Frost-Schenk, J., Munch, M., Guardo, G. L., La Cognata, M., Pizzone, R. G., Rapisarda, G. G., Chae, K. Y., Kim, M. J., & Kwag, M. S. Investigation of Compton scattering for gamma beam intensity measurements and perspectives at ELI-NP.  United States.  doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.048.

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                    Turturica, G. V., Matei, Catalin, Pappalardo, A., Balabanski, D. L., Chesnevskaya, S., Iancu, V., Ur, C. A., Karwowski, H. J., Chipps, Kelly A., Febbraro, Michael T., Pain, Steven D., Walter, D., Diget, C. Aa., Frost-Schenk, J., Munch, M., Guardo, G. L., La Cognata, M., Pizzone, R. G., Rapisarda, G. G., Chae, K. Y., Kim, M. J., and Kwag, M. S. Tue .  
        "Investigation of Compton scattering for gamma beam intensity measurements and perspectives at ELI-NP".  United States.  doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.048.

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@article{osti_1566950,

  title        = {Investigation of Compton scattering for gamma beam intensity measurements and perspectives at ELI-NP},

  author       = {Turturica, G. V. and Matei, Catalin and Pappalardo, A. and Balabanski, D. L. and Chesnevskaya, S. and Iancu, V. and Ur, C. A. and Karwowski, H. J. and Chipps, Kelly A. and Febbraro, Michael T. and Pain, Steven D. and Walter, D. and Diget, C. Aa. and Frost-Schenk, J. and Munch, M. and Guardo, G. L. and La Cognata, M. and Pizzone, R. G. and Rapisarda, G. G. and Chae, K. Y. and Kim, M. J. and Kwag, M. S.},

  abstractNote = {Compton γ-ray sources have been used for over 30 years with new facilities being under construction or proposed. The gamma beam system under implementation at the Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics facility in Romania will deliver brilliant γ-ray beams with energies up to 19.5 MeV. Several instruments for measuring the parameters of the γ-ray beam are under development at ELI-NP. One of these instruments based on a High Purity Germanium detector is typically used for beam energy measurements at other facilities. Here we investigate the use of a High Purity Germanium detector to continuously monitor the intensity of the ELI-NP gamma beam by measuring the inelastic scattering of photons. This technique relies on both experimental and simulated data and it has been successfully tested during a recent experiment at the High Intensity γ-ray Source facility.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.048},

  journal      = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 921,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {12}

}

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