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Measuring radiation environment in LHC or anywhere else, on your computer screen with Medipix

Author
Heijne Erik H., Dr. IEAP
Ballabriga Rafael CERN
Campbell Michael CERN
Leroy Claude Université de Montréal
Llopart Xavier CERN
Martin Jean-Pierre Université de Montréal
Pospíšil Stanislav,  Ing. DrSc. IEAP
Šolc Jaroslav, Ing. Ph.D. IEAP
Soueid Paul Université de Montréal
Suk Michal, Prof., RNDr., CSc. IEAP
Tlustos Lukas CERN
Tureček Daniel, Ing. IEAP
Vykydal Zdeněk, Ing. IEAP
Wong Winnie CERN

Year
2013

Scientific journal
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A, In press, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.023

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Abstract
The Medipix family of chips use on-pixel pulse processing front-ends, digitization and counters to produce images of radiation. The devices have been derived from developments for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics experiments at CERN. With the miniaturization of the associated readout system a new method of dosimetry becomes accessible, where single radiation quanta are detected and imaged. Several examples of dose measurements at highly differing dose rates are presented here: monitoring of background radiation on earth, in a flying airplane and in the ATLAS experiment at LHC. During proton collision runs as well as during the stops of the accelerator the dose can be measured, including characterization of different types of radiation. Thanks to the noiseless method of quantum imaging dosimetry, a large dynamic range can be achieved, employing only this single device. The dose rate extends from recording only a few quanta in hours, up to hundreds of quanta recorded in a fraction of a ms. With complementary methods for the analysis of the exposed image frames, one can cover 14 orders of magnitude.
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Cite article as:
E. Heijne, R. Ballabriga, M. Campbell, C. Leroy, X. Llopart, J. Martin, S. Pospíšil, J. Šolc, P. Soueid, M. Suk, L. Tlustos, D. Tureček, Z. Vykydal, W. Wong, "Measuring radiation environment in LHC or anywhere else, on your computer screen with Medipix", Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A, In press, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.023 (2013)

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