Calibration of imaging plate detectors to mono-energetic protons in the range 1-200 MeV

N. Rabhi (1) , D. Batani (1) , G. Boutoux (1) , J.-E. Ducret (1) , K. Jakubowska (1) , I. Lantuejoul-Thfoin (2) , C. Nauraye (3) , A. Patriarca (3) , A. Saïd (4) , A. Semsoum (4) , L. Serani (5) , B. Thomas (5) , B. Vauzour (2)

1 CELIA - Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications
2 DAM - Direction des Applications Militaires
3 Institut Curie [Paris]
4 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
5 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan

Responses of Fuji Imaging Plates (IPs) to proton have been measured in the range 1-200 MeV. Mono-energetic protons were produced with the 15 MV ALTO-Tandem accelerator of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Orsay, France) and, at higher energies, with the 200-MeV isochronous cyclotron of the Institut Curie—Centre de Protonthérapie d’Orsay (Orsay, France). The experimental setups are described and the measured photo-stimulated luminescence responses for MS, SR, and TR IPs are presented and compared to existing data. For the interpretation of the results, a sensitivity model based on the Monte Carlo GEANT4 code has been developed. It enables the calculation of the response functions in a large energy range, from 0.1 to 200 MeV. Finally, we show that our model reproduces accurately the response of more complex detectors, i.e., stack of high-Z filters and IPs, which could be of great interest for diagnostics of Petawatt laser accelerated particles

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

N. Rabhi, D. Batani, G. Boutoux, J.-E. Ducret, K. Jakubowska, et al.. Calibration of imaging plate detectors to mono-energetic protons in the range 1-200 MeV. Rev.Sci.Instrum., 2017, 88 (11), pp.113301. ⟨10.1063/1.5009472⟩. ⟨hal-01851242⟩