miniSCIDOM: a scintillator-based tomograph for volumetric dose reconstruction of single laser-driven proton bunches

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Beitragende

Abstract

Laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) enable the generation of intense and short proton bunches on a micrometre scale, thus offering new experimental capabilities to research fields such as ultra-high dose rate radiobiology or material analysis. Being spectrally broadband, laser-accelerated proton bunches allow for tailored volumetric dose deposition in a sample via single bunches to excite or probe specific sample properties. The rising number of such experiments indicates a need for diagnostics providing spatially resolved characterization of dose distributions with volumes of approximately 1 cm3 for single proton bunches to allow for fast online feedback. Here we present the scintillator-based miniSCIDOM detector for online single-bunch tomographic reconstruction of dose distributions in volumes of up to approximately 1 cm3. The detector achieves a spatial resolution below 500 μm and a sensitivity of 100 mGy. The detector performance is tested at a proton therapy cyclotron and an LPA proton source. The experiments’ primary focus is the characterization of the scintillator’s ionization quenching behaviour.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere17
FachzeitschriftHigh power laser science and engineering
Jahrgang12
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 23 Jan. 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • beam monitoring detectors, laser-driven proton beams, scintillator-based diagnostics, ultra-high dose rate