miniSCIDOM: a scintillator-based tomograph for volumetric dose reconstruction of single laser-driven proton bunches
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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.
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Original language | English |
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Article number | e17 |
Journal | High power laser science and engineering |
Volume | 12 |
Publication status | Published - 23 Jan 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
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Keywords
- beam monitoring detectors, laser-driven proton beams, scintillator-based diagnostics, ultra-high dose rate