Low material budget floating strip Micromegas for ion transmission radiography

Bortfeldt, J.; Biebel, O.; Flierl, B.; Hertenberger, R.; Klitzner, F.; Lösel, Ph.; Magallanes, L.; Müller, R.; Parodi, K.; Schlüter, T.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.003

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Low material budget floating strip Micromegas for ion transmission radiography

J. Bortfeldt
(
- Munich U.
)
,
O. Biebel
(
- Munich U.
)
,
B. Flierl
(
- Munich U.
)
,
R. Hertenberger
(
- Munich U.
)
,
F. Klitzner
(
- Munich U.
)

May 2, 2016

5 pages

Part of Proceedings, 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation (VCI 2016) : Vienna, Austria, February 15-19, 2016, 210-214

Published in:

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 845 (2017) 210-214

Contribution to:

- VCI 2016
, 210-214

Published: May 2, 2016

DOI:

10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.003

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Floating strip Micromegas are high-accuracy and discharge insensitive gaseous detectors, able to track single particles at fluxes of 7

MHz/cm^2

with 100 μm resolution. We developed low-material-budget detectors with one-dimensional strip readout, suitable for tracking at highest particle rates as encountered in medical ion transmission radiography or inner tracker applications. Recently we additionally developed Kapton-based floating strip Micromegas with two-dimensional strip readout, featuring an overall thickness of

0.011 X_0

. These detectors were tested in high-rate proton and carbon-ion beams at the tandem accelerator in Garching and the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center, operated with an optimized

Ne:CF_4

gas mixture. By coupling the Micromegas detectors to a new scintillator based range detector, ion transmission radiographies of PMMA and tissue-equivalent phantoms were acquired. The range detector with 18 layers is read out via wavelength shifting fibers, coupled to a multi-anode photomultiplier. We present the performance of the Micromegas detectors with respect to timing and single plane track reconstruction using the μTPC method. We discuss the range resolution of the scintillator range telescope and present the image reconstruction capabilities of the combined system.

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