| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:2202.10961 |
| Title | Additive manufacturing of fine-granularity optically-isolated plastic scintillator elements |
| Author(s) |
Berns, S. (Unlisted, CH) ; Boillat, E. (Unlisted, CH) ; Boyarintsev, A. (Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv) ; De Roeck, A. (CERN) ; Dolan, S. (CERN) ; Gendotti, A. (Zurich, ETH) ; Grynyov, B. (Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv) ; Hugon, S. (Unlisted, CH) ; Kose, U. (CERN) ; Kovalchuk, S. (Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv) ; Li, B. (Zurich, ETH) ; Rubbia, A. (Zurich, ETH) ; Sibilieva, T. (Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv) ; Sgalaberna, D. (Zurich, ETH) ; Weber, T. (Zurich, ETH) ; Wuthrich, J. (Zurich, ETH) ; Zhao, X.Y. (Zurich, ETH) |
| Publication | 2022-10-31 |
| Imprint | 2022-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Note | Accepted for publication in JINST |
| In: | JINST 17 (2022) P10045 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-0221/17/10/P10045 |
| Subject category | physics.ins-det ; Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Abstract | Plastic scintillator detectors are used in high energy physics as well as for diagnostic imaging in medicine, beam monitoring on hadron therapy, muon tomography, dosimetry and many security applications. To combine particle tracking and calorimetry it is necessary to build detectors with three-dimensional granularity, i.e. small voxels of scintillator optically isolated from each other. Recently, the 3DET collaboration demonstrated the possibility to 3D print polystyrene-based scintillators with a light output performance close to that obtained with standard production methods. In this article, after providing a further characterization of the developed scintillators, we show the first matrix of plastic scintillator cubes optically separated by a white reflector material entirely 3D printed with fused deposition modeling. This is a major milestone towards the 3D printing of the first real particle detector. A discussion of the results as well as the next steps in the R&D is also provided. |
| Copyright/License | preprint: (License: arXiv nonexclusive-distrib 1.0) publication: © 2022-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0) |
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