Absolute calibration of Fujifilm BAS-TR image plate response to laser driven protons up to 40 MeV-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Absolute calibration of Fujifilm BAS-TR image plate response to laser driven protons up to 40 MeV

Published:2022-05-01 Issue:5 Volume:93 Page:053303
ISSN:0034-6748
Container-title:Review of Scientific Instruments
language:en
Short-container-title:Review of Scientific Instruments

Author:

Martin P.¹^ORCID,Ahmed H.¹²,Doria D.¹³^ORCID,Alejo A.¹⁴,Clarke R.²,Ferguson S.¹^ORCID,Fernández-Tobias J.²⁵,Freeman R. R.⁶,Fuchs J.⁷^ORCID,Green A.¹,Green J. S.²,Gwynne D.¹^ORCID,Hanton F.¹,Jarrett J.⁸,Jung D.¹,Kakolee K. F.¹⁹,Krygier A. G.⁶,Lewis C. L. S.¹^ORCID,McIlvenny A.¹^ORCID,McKenna P.⁸^ORCID,Morrison J. T.¹⁰,Najmudin Z.¹¹^ORCID,Naughton K.¹^ORCID,Nersisyan G.¹,Norreys P.¹²^ORCID,Notley M.²,Roth M.¹³^ORCID,Ruiz J. A.⁵,Scullion C.¹,Zepf M.¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶,Zhai S.¹¹⁷,Borghesi M.¹^ORCID,Kar S.¹

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

2. Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom

3. Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-NP), and Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Str. Reatorului No. 30, 077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

4. IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

5. Instituto de Fusion Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

6. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

7. LULI - CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06 : Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France

8. Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, United Kingdom

9. Department of Physics, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh

10. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA

11. Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

12. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom

13. Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schloßgartenstrasse 9, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany

14. Helmholtz Institut Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany

15. Institute for Quantumoptics, University of Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany

16. GSI GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany

17. Department of Mathematics and Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China

Abstract

Image plates (IPs) are a popular detector in the field of laser driven ion acceleration, owing to their high dynamic range and reusability. An absolute calibration of these detectors to laser-driven protons in the routinely produced tens of MeV energy range is, therefore, essential. In this paper, the response of Fujifilm BAS-TR IPs to 1–40 MeV protons is calibrated by employing the detectors in high resolution Thomson parabola spectrometers in conjunction with a CR-39 nuclear track detector to determine absolute proton numbers. While CR-39 was placed in front of the image plate for lower energy protons, it was placed behind the image plate for energies above 10 MeV using suitable metal filters sandwiched between the image plate and CR-39 to select specific energies. The measured response agrees well with previously reported calibrations as well as standard models of IP response, providing, for the first time, an absolute calibration over a large range of proton energies of relevance to current experiments.

Funder

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Instrumentation

Link

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0089402

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