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Particle Detector R&D: Design, Characterization and Applications

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A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 May 2024 | Viewed by 7724

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Dr. Alessandro Rizzo

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Radiation Protection Institute (IRP)—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), 00123 Rome, Italy
Interests: nuclear and particle physics; environmental physics; radiological protection; detectors; simulations; data analysis

Dr. Luca Ciciani

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Radiation Protection Institute (IRP)—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), 00123 Rome, Italy
Interests: environmental physics; particles and radiation detectors; radiological protection; internal dosimetry and in-vivo measurements; gamma spectroscopy; nuclear and radiological plants decommissioning

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Dear Colleagues,

Historically, particle and radiation detector research and development has followed the increasing technical demand from nuclear and particle physics experiments in fundamental physics research. At present, detector technology is also widely applied in other research and industrial fields such as environmental, medical and radiological protection studies, or nuclear and oil industries, among others. This generates a growing interest in detector R&D as this technology often represents a key factor for technical and scientific advancement in the respective application field. Moreover, innovative detector projects, but also those originating from technology transfer, can have positive outcomes, in turn leading to economic benefits, making detector R&D particularly appealing and of interest to national research programs.

In such a context, the aim of this Special Issue is to collect original research works on particle and radiation detector R&D, including innovative projects as well as those originating from technology transfer. In particular, articles can focus on detector design and technical features, construction, performance evaluation and characterization, based on physical studies and/or mathematical simulations. In particular, studies that include practical and innovative instrumentation applications are warmly welcomed.

Dr. Alessandro Rizzo
Dr. Luca Ciciani
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detectors
R&D
measurements
characterization
simulations
nuclear physics
particle physics
medical physics
space physics
environmental physics

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Potentialities of CdZnTe Quasi-Hemispherical Detectors for Hard X-ray Spectroscopy of Kaonic Atoms at the DAΦNE Collider

by Leonardo Abbene, Antonino Buttacavoli, Fabio Principato, Gaetano Gerardi, Manuele Bettelli, Andrea Zappettini, Massimiliano Bazzi, Mario Bragadireanu, Michael Cargnelli, Marco Carminati, Alberto Clozza, Griseld Deda, Raffaele Del Grande, Luca De Paolis, Laura Fabbietti, Carlo Fiorini, Carlo Guaraldo, Mihail Iliescu, Misahiko Iwasaki, Aleksander Khreptak, Simone Manti, Johann Marton, Marco Miliucci, Pawel Moskal, Fabrizio Napolitano, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Hiroaky Ohnishi, Kristian Piscicchia, Yuta Sada, Francesco Sgaramella, Hexi Shi, Michalł Silarski, Diana Laura Sirghi, Florin Sirghi, Magdalena Skurzok, Antonio Spallone, Kairo Toho, Marlene Tüchler, Oton Vazquez Doce, Chihiro Yoshida, Johannes Zmeskal, Alessandro Scordo and Catalina Curceanu Show full author list Hide full author list

Sensors 2023, 23(17), 7328; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177328 - 22 Aug 2023

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Kaonic atom X-ray spectroscopy is a consolidated technique for investigations on the physics of strong kaon–nucleus/nucleon interaction. Several experiments have been conducted regarding the measurement of soft X-ray emission (<20 keV) from light kaonic atoms (hydrogen, deuterium, and helium). Currently, there have been new research activities within the framework of the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment and EXCALIBUR proposal focusing on performing precise and accurate measurements of hard X-rays (>20 keV) from intermediate kaonic atoms (carbon, aluminum, and sulfur). In this context, we investigated cadmium–zinc–telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) detectors, which have recently demonstrated high-resolution capabilities for hard X-ray and gamma-ray detection. A demonstrator prototype based on a new cadmium–zinc–telluride quasi-hemispherical detector and custom digital pulse processing electronics was developed. The detector covered a detection area of 1 cm² with a single readout channel and interesting room-temperature performance with energy resolution of 4.4% (2.6 keV), 3% (3.7 keV), and 1.4% (9.3 keV) FWHM at 59.5, 122.1, and 662 keV, respectively. The results from X-ray measurements at the DAΦNE collider at the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati (Italy) are also presented with particular attention to the effects and rejection of electromagnetic and hadronic background. Full article

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Bragg Curve Detection of Low-Energy Protons by Radiophotoluminescence Imaging in Lithium Fluoride Thin Films

by Rosa Maria Montereali, Valentina Nigro, Massimo Piccinini, Maria Aurora Vincenti, Alessandro Ampollini, Paolo Nenzi, Concetta Ronsivalle and Enrico Nichelatti

Sensors 2023, 23(10), 4779; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23104779 - 16 May 2023

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Lithium fluoride (LiF) crystals and thin films are utilized as radiation detectors for energy diagnostics of proton beams. This is achieved by analyzing the Bragg curves in LiF obtained by imaging the radiophotoluminescence of color centers created by protons. In LiF crystals, the Bragg peak depth increases superlinearly with the particle energy. A previous study has shown that, when 35 MeV protons impinge at grazing incidence onto LiF films deposited on Si(100) substrates, the Bragg peak in the films is located at the depth where it would be found in Si rather than in LiF due to multiple Coulomb scattering. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulations of proton irradiations in the 1–8 MeV energy range are performed and compared to experimental Bragg curves in optically transparent LiF films on Si(100) substrates. Our study focuses on this energy range because, as energy increases, the Bragg peak gradually shifts from the depth in LiF to that in Si. The impact of grazing incidence angle, LiF packing density, and film thickness on shaping the Bragg curve in the film is examined. At energies higher than 8 MeV, all these quantities must be considered, although the effect of packing density plays a minor role. Full article

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LIDAL, a Time-of-Flight Radiation Detector for the International Space Station: Description and Ground Calibration

by Giulia Romoli, Luca Di Fino, Giorgia Santi Amantini, Virginia Boretti, Luca Lunati, Carolina Berucci, Roberto Messi, Alessandro Rizzo, Pietro Albicocco, Cinzia De Donato, Giuseppe Masciantonio, Maria Cristina Morone, Giovanni Nobili, Giorgio Baiocco, Alice Mentana, Marco Pullia, Francesco Tommasino, Elisa Carrubba, Antonio Bardi, Marco Passerai, Dario Castagnolo, Gabriele Mascetti, Marino Crisconio and Livio Narici Show full author list Hide full author list

Sensors 2023, 23(7), 3559; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073559 - 28 Mar 2023

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LIDAL (Light Ion Detector for ALTEA, Anomalous Long-Term Effects on Astronauts) is a radiation detector designed to measure the flux, the energy spectra and, for the first time, the time-of-flight of ions in a space habitat. It features a combination of striped silicon sensors for the measurement of deposited energy (using the ALTEA device, which operated from 2006 to 2012 in the International Space Station) and fast scintillators for the time-of-flight measurement. LIDAL was tested and calibrated using the proton beam line at TIFPA (Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics Application) and the carbon beam line at CNAO (National Center for Oncology Hadron-therapy) in 2019. The performance of the time-of-flight system featured a time resolution (sigma) less than 100 ps. Here, we describe the detector and the results of these tests, providing ground calibration curves along with the methodology established for processing the detector’s data. LIDAL was uploaded in the International Space Station in November 2019 and it has been operative in the Columbus module since January 2020. Full article

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Halide Perovskites Films for Ionizing Radiation Detection: An Overview of Novel Solid-State Devices

by Naomi Falsini, Alberto Ubaldini, Flavio Cicconi, Antonietta Rizzo, Anna Vinattieri and Mara Bruzzi

Sensors 2023, 23(10), 4930; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23104930 - 20 May 2023

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Halide perovskites are a novel class of semiconductors that have attracted great interest in recent decades due to their peculiar properties of interest for optoelectronics. In fact, their use ranges from the field of sensors and light emitters to ionizing radiation detectors. Since 2015, ionizing radiation detectors exploiting perovskite films as active media have been developed. Recently, it has also been demonstrated that such devices can be suitable for medical and diagnostic applications. This review collects most of the recent and innovative publications regarding solid-state devices for the detection of X-rays, neutrons, and protons based on perovskite thin and thick films in order to show that this type of material can be used to design a new generation of devices and sensors. Thin and thick films of halide perovskites are indeed excellent candidates for low-cost and large-area device applications, where the film morphology allows the implementation on flexible devices, which is a cutting-edge topic in the sensor sector. Full article

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