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Article
Title Novel radiation hard microfabricated scintillation detectors with high spatial resolution
Author(s) Mapelli, A (EPFL, Lausanne ; CERN) ; Gorini, B (CERN) ; Haguenauerc, M (Ecole Polytechnique) ; Jiguet, S (Gersteltec, Pully) ; Vico Triviño, N (EPFL, Lausanne) ; Renaud, P (EPFL, Lausanne)
Publication 2010
In: Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 617 (2010) 400-401
In: 11th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors on Frontier Detectors For Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Italy, 24 - 30 May 2009, pp.400-401
DOI 10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.091
Subject category Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract A novel liquid scintillation detector with high spatial resolution is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by filling microfluidic channels with an organic liquid scintillator and optically coupled to a pixellated photodetector. Such a microfluidic device can be designed and processed to meet the requirements of a wide range of applications like medical imaging, homeland security and high-energy physics. High-spatial resolution miniaturized detectors as well as large-area detectors can easily be fabricated. The fabrication process of a prototype detector and experimental results are presented in this paper.



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