Novel radiation hard microfabricated scintillation detectors with high spatial resolution

✍ Scribed by A. Mapelli; B. Gorini; M. Haguenauer; S. Jiguet; N. Vico Triviño; P. Renaud

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 617
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.091

✦ Synopsis

A novel liquid scintillation detector with high spatial resolution is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by filling microfluidic channels with an organic liquid scintillator and optically coupled to a pixellated photodetector. Such a microfluidic device can be designed and processed to meet the requirements of a wide range of applications like medical imaging, homeland security and high-energy physics. Highspatial resolution miniaturized detectors as well as large-area detectors can easily be fabricated. The fabrication process of a prototype detector and experimental results are presented in this paper.