4–5 Feb 2011
RIKEN
Asia/Tokyo timezone

R&D on large volume LaBr3:Ce detectors

5 Feb 2011, 14:30
35m
Nishina Hall (RIKEN)

Nishina Hall

RIKEN

Speaker

Prof. Franco Camera (Università di Milano and INFN sect. of Milano)

Summary

The availability of large volume LaBr3:Ce detectors has generated, in the scientific community addressing nuclear structure problems with experiments using scintillator, a large interest. Indeed, its properties make it the best scintillation crystal for -detection and -spectroscopy and a possible alternative or complementary system to HPGe array.
The group of Milano has been conducting since 2007 an R&D activity on these detectors. The activity is focused to the construction of an array of large volume 3.5” x 8” LaBr3:Ce detectors for -spectroscopy in nuclear structure experiments. Inside this project the following activities are carried out:

• Linearity, energy and time resolution for different PMTs
• Response to high energy gamma rays measured up to 15.1 MeV
• Internal radioactivity measurement
• Pulse Shape Analysis (PSA) for linearity correction
• Pulse Shape Analysis (PSA) for particle identification measurements
• Digital/Analogical board development
• Position Sensitivity and gamma imaging in a continuous crystal
• GEANT simulations and scintillation light tracking

A summary of these activities and an overview of the results will be presented.

Primary author

Prof. Franco Camera (Università di Milano and INFN sect. of Milano)

Co-authors

Prof. Angela Bracco (Università di Milano) Dr Benedicte Million (INFN sect. of Milano) Mr Ciro Boiano (INFN sect. of Milano) Dr Nives Blasi (INFN sect. of Milano) Dr Oliver Wieland (INFN sect. of Milano) Dr Sergio Brambilla (INFN sect. of Milano) Dr Stefano Riboldi (Università di Milano)

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