Development of a plasma panel radiation detector
Abstract
This article reports on the development and experimental results of commercial plasma display panels adapted for their potential use as micropattern gas radiation detectors. The plasma panel sensor (PPS) design and materials include glass substrates, metal electrodes and inert gas mixtures which provide a physically robust, hermetically sealed device. Plasma display panels used as detectors were tested with cosmic ray muons, beta rays and gamma rays, protons, and thermal neutrons. The results demonstrated rise times and time resolution of a few nanoseconds, as well as sub-millimeter spatial resolution compatible with the pixel pitch.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- November 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.nima.2014.07.028
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1403.3454
- Bibcode:
- 2014NIMPA.764..122B
- Keywords:
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- Radiation detector;
- Gaseous ionization detector;
- Micropattern gaseous detectors;
- Neutron detectors;
- Plasma panels;
- Pixel radiation detector;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- Submitted to NIM