Localisation of gamma-ray interaction points in thick monolithic cebr3 and labr3:ce scintillators
Ulyanov, Alexei Morris, Oran Roberts, Oliver J. Tobin, Isaac Hanlon, Lorraine McBreen, Sheila Murphy, David Nelms, Nick Shortt, Brian
Ulyanov, Alexei
Morris, Oran
Roberts, Oliver J.
Tobin, Isaac
Hanlon, Lorraine
McBreen, Sheila
Murphy, David
Nelms, Nick
Shortt, Brian
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/14234
https://doi.org/10.13025/27174
https://doi.org/10.13025/27174
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2017-02-01
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Ulyanov, Alexei; Morris, Oran; Roberts, Oliver J. Tobin, Isaac; Hanlon, Lorraine; McBreen, Sheila; Murphy, David; Nelms, Nick; Shortt, Brian (2017). Localisation of gamma-ray interaction points in thick monolithic cebr3 and labr3:ce scintillators. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 844 , 81-89
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Localisation of gamma-ray interaction points in monolithic scintillator crystals can simplify the design and improve the performance of a future Compton telescope for gamma-ray astronomy. In this paper we compare the position resolution of three monolithic scintillators: a 28x28x20 mm(3) (lengthxbreadth x thickness) LaBr3:Ce crystal, a 25x25x20 mm(3) CeBr3 crystal and a 25x25x10 mm(3) CeBr3 crystal. Each crystal was encapsulated and coupled to an array of 4x4 silicon photomultipliers through an optical window. The measurements were conducted using 81 keV and 356 keV gamma-rays from a collimated Ba-133 source. The 3D position reconstruction of interaction points was performed using artificial neural networks trained with experimental data. Although the position resolution was significantly better for the thinner crystal, the 20 mm thick CeBr3 crystal showed an acceptable resolution of about 5.4 mm FWHM for the x and y coordinates, and 7.8 mm FWHM for the z-coordinate (crystal depth) at 356 keV. These values were obtained from the full position scans of the crystal sides. The position resolution of the LaBr3: Ce crystal was found to be considerably worse, presumably due to the highly diffusive optical interface between the crystal and the optical window of the enclosure. The energy resolution (FWHM) measured for 662 keV gamma-rays was 4.0% for LaBr3: Ce and 5.5% for CeBr3. The same crystals equipped with a PMT (Hamamatsu R6322-100) gave an energy resolution of 3.0% and 4.7%, respectively.
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