BIW2012 - List of Authors (Zhou, B.)

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MOPG021	Plasma Panel Detectors as Active Pixel Beam Monitors	74
	P.S. Friedman Integrated Sensors, LLC, Ottawa Hills, USA R. Ball, J.W. Chapman, C. Ferretti, D.S. Levin, C. Weaverdyck, B. Zhou University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA J.R. Beene, R.L. Varner Jr. ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA M. Ben-Moshe, Y. Benhammou, E. Etzion, N. Guttman, Y. Silver University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
	Funding: DOE-NP We are developing a multipurpose radiation detector based on Plasma Display Panel (PDP) technology. The Plasma Panel Sensor (PPS), a micropattern radiation detector, inherits many operational and fabrication principles common to PDPs. The PPS is comprised of a dense array of microscopic, gas plasma discharge cells using a stable, hermetically-sealed gas mixture. The PPS is assembled from non-reactive, intrinsically radiation-hard materials: glass substrates, refractory metal electrodes and mostly inert gas mixtures. We anticipate it will be possible to fabricate these devices as ultra-thin, ultra-low-mass, detectors with 1 micron thick front substrates, and gas thicknesses of a several hundred to a thousand microns. The PPS is a high gain, inherently digital device with the potential for very fast response times, very fine position resolution (< 100 μm) and low cost. We will report on the PPS development program, including experimental results in detecting betas, protons and MIPs including cosmic muons. We are interested in several additional potential applications including detection of alphas, heavy-ions at low energy, thermal neutrons and X-rays.

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Plasma Panel Detectors as Active Pixel Beam Monitors

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P.S. Friedman
Integrated Sensors, LLC, Ottawa Hills, USA
R. Ball, J.W. Chapman, C. Ferretti, D.S. Levin, C. Weaverdyck, B. Zhou
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
J.R. Beene, R.L. Varner Jr.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
M. Ben-Moshe, Y. Benhammou, E. Etzion, N. Guttman, Y. Silver
University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Funding: DOE-NP
We are developing a multipurpose radiation detector based on Plasma Display Panel (PDP) technology. The Plasma Panel Sensor (PPS), a micropattern radiation detector, inherits many operational and fabrication principles common to PDPs. The PPS is comprised of a dense array of microscopic, gas plasma discharge cells using a stable, hermetically-sealed gas mixture. The PPS is assembled from non-reactive, intrinsically radiation-hard materials: glass substrates, refractory metal electrodes and mostly inert gas mixtures. We anticipate it will be possible to fabricate these devices as ultra-thin, ultra-low-mass, detectors with 1 micron thick front substrates, and gas thicknesses of a several hundred to a thousand microns. The PPS is a high gain, inherently digital device with the potential for very fast response times, very fine position resolution (< 100 μm) and low cost. We will report on the PPS development program, including experimental results in detecting betas, protons and MIPs including cosmic muons. We are interested in several additional potential applications including detection of alphas, heavy-ions at low energy, thermal neutrons and X-rays.