Performance of the gamma-ray camera based on GSO(Ce) scintillator array and PSPMT with the ASIC readout system
โ Scribed by Kazuki Ueno; Kaori Hattori; Chihiro Ida; Satoru Iwaki; Shigeto Kabuki; Hidetoshi Kubo; Shunsuke Kurosawa; Kentaro Miuchi; Tsutomu Nagayoshi; Hironobu Nishimura; Reiko Orito; Atsushi Takada; Toru Tanimori
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 532 KB
- Volume
- 591
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
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โฆ Synopsis
We have studied the performance of a readout system with ASIC chips for a gamma-ray camera based on a 64-channel multi-anode PSPMT (Hamamatsu flat-panel H8500) coupled to a GSO(Ce) scintillator array. The GSO array consists of 8 ร 8 pixels of 6 ร 6 ร 13 mm 3 with the same pixel pitch as the anode of the H8500. This camera is intended to serve as an absorber of an electron tracking Compton gamma-ray camera that measures gamma rays up to $1 MeV. Because we need a readout system with low power consumption for a balloon-borne experiment, we adopted a 32-channel ASIC chip, IDEAS VA32_HDR11, which has one of the widest dynamic range among commercial chips. However, in the case of using a GSO(Ce) crystal and the H8500, the dynamic range of VA32_HDR11 is narrow, and therefore the H8500 has to be operated with a low gain of about 10 5 . If the H8500 is operated with a low gain, the camera has a narrow incident-energy dynamic range from 100 to 700 keV, and a bad energy resolution of 13.0% (FWHM) at 662 keV. We have therefore developed an attenuator board in order to operate the H8500 with the typical gain of 10 6 , which can measure up to $1 MeV gamma ray. The board makes the variation of the anode gain uniform and widens the dynamic range of the H8500. The system using the new attenuator board has a good uniformity of min:max$1:1.6, an incident-energy dynamic range from 30 to 900 keV, a position resolution of less than 6 mm, and a typical energy resolution of 10.6% (FWHM) at 662 keV with a low power consumption of about 1.7 W/64ch.
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