Ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for Gigahertz Hard X-ray imaging

Hu, Chen; Zhang, Liyuan; Zhu, Ren-Yuan; Demarteau, Marcel; Wagner, Robert; Xia, Lei; Xie, Junqi; Li, Xuan; Wang, Zhehui; Shih, Yanhua; Smith, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.011

Title: Ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for Gigahertz Hard X-ray imaging

Abstract

State-of-the art X-ray imaging cameras using silicon sensors for X-ray detection have demonstrated a frame-rate of 10 MHz and excellent performance for X-ray energies below 20 keV. We proposed a pixelated ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for GHz hard X-ray imaging. Here, the proposed imager is featured with a total absorption for hard X-ray photons, and provides sub-ns scintillation pulse width crucial for X-ray bunches of a few ns spacing foreseen at the proposed MaRIE facility. We measured temporal response of a dozen ultrafast and fast inorganic scintillators at the 10-ID-B site of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) of ANL. Crystal's response to hybrid X-ray beam of 30 keV, consisting of singlet bunches of 50 ps width and septuplet bunches of 27 ps width with 2.83 ns bunch spacing, was measured. Ultrafast inorganic scintillators, such as BaF₂:Y and ZnO:Ga, show clearly resolved X-ray bunches for septuplets, as well as no degradation of amplitude for continuous eight septuplets, providing a proof of principle for the ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based total absorption front imager for the proposed MaRIE project.

Authors:

Hu, Chen ^[1]; Zhang, Liyuan ^[1]; Zhu, Ren-Yuan ^[1]; Demarteau, Marcel ^[2]; Wagner, Robert ^[2]; Xia, Lei ^[2]; Xie, Junqi ^[2]; Li, Xuan ^[3]; Wang, Zhehui ^[3]; Shih, Yanhua ^[4]; Smith, Thomas ^[4]

California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States)

Publication Date:: 2019-06-17

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1767964

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1530476

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; SC0011925

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: 940; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Ultrafast; Inorganic scintillator; Crystal Microchannel plate; Rise time; Decay time; FWHM pulse width

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                    Hu, Chen, Zhang, Liyuan, Zhu, Ren-Yuan, Demarteau, Marcel, Wagner, Robert, Xia, Lei, Xie, Junqi, Li, Xuan, Wang, Zhehui, Shih, Yanhua, and Smith, Thomas. Ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for Gigahertz Hard X-ray imaging.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Hu, Chen, Zhang, Liyuan, Zhu, Ren-Yuan, Demarteau, Marcel, Wagner, Robert, Xia, Lei, Xie, Junqi, Li, Xuan, Wang, Zhehui, Shih, Yanhua, & Smith, Thomas. Ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for Gigahertz Hard X-ray imaging.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.011

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                    Hu, Chen, Zhang, Liyuan, Zhu, Ren-Yuan, Demarteau, Marcel, Wagner, Robert, Xia, Lei, Xie, Junqi, Li, Xuan, Wang, Zhehui, Shih, Yanhua, and Smith, Thomas. Mon .  
"Ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for Gigahertz Hard X-ray imaging".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.011.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767964.

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  title        = {Ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for Gigahertz Hard X-ray imaging},

  author       = {Hu, Chen and Zhang, Liyuan and Zhu, Ren-Yuan and Demarteau, Marcel and Wagner, Robert and Xia, Lei and Xie, Junqi and Li, Xuan and Wang, Zhehui and Shih, Yanhua and Smith, Thomas},

  abstractNote = {State-of-the art X-ray imaging cameras using silicon sensors for X-ray detection have demonstrated a frame-rate of 10 MHz and excellent performance for X-ray energies below 20 keV. We proposed a pixelated ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based front imager for GHz hard X-ray imaging. Here, the proposed imager is featured with a total absorption for hard X-ray photons, and provides sub-ns scintillation pulse width crucial for X-ray bunches of a few ns spacing foreseen at the proposed MaRIE facility. We measured temporal response of a dozen ultrafast and fast inorganic scintillators at the 10-ID-B site of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) of ANL. Crystal's response to hybrid X-ray beam of 30 keV, consisting of singlet bunches of 50 ps width and septuplet bunches of 27 ps width with 2.83 ns bunch spacing, was measured. Ultrafast inorganic scintillators, such as BaF2:Y and ZnO:Ga, show clearly resolved X-ray bunches for septuplets, as well as no degradation of amplitude for continuous eight septuplets, providing a proof of principle for the ultrafast inorganic scintillator-based total absorption front imager for the proposed MaRIE project.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.011},

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

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  volume       = 940,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2019},

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