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Development of simultaneous multi-channel data acquisition system for large-area Compton camera (LACC)

  • Junyoung Lee (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Youngmo Ku (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Sehoon Choi (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Goeun Lee (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Taehyeon Eom (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Hyun Su Lee (Radioactivity Metrology Team, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Jae Hyeon Kim (Radiation Utilization & Facilities Management Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Chan Hyeong Kim (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • Received : 2022.11.21
  • Accepted : 2023.06.26
  • Published : 2023.10.25
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Abstract

The large-area Compton camera (LACC), featuring significantly high detection sensitivity, was developed for high-speed localization of gamma-ray sources. Due to the high gamma-ray interaction event rate induced by the high sensitivity, however, the multiplexer-based data acquisition system (DAQ) rapidly saturated, leading to deteriorated energy and imaging resolution at event rates higher than 4.7 × 103 s-1. In the present study, a new simultaneous multi-channel DAQ was developed to improve the energy and imaging resolution of the LACC even under high event rate conditions (104-106 s-1). The performance of the DAQ was evaluated with several point sources under different event rate conditions. The results indicated that the new DAQ offers significantly better performance than the existing DAQ over the entire energy and event rate ranges. Especially, the new DAQ showed high energy resolution under very high event rate conditions, i.e., 6.9% and 8.6% (for 662 keV) at 1.3 × 105 and 1.2 × 106 s-1, respectively. Furthermore, the new DAQ successfully acquired Compton images under those event rates, i.e., imaging resolutions of 13.8° and 19.3° at 8.7 × 104 and 106 s-1, which correspond to 1.8 and 73 μSv/hr or about 18 and 730 times the background level, respectively.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by Field-oriented Technology Development Project for Customs Administration through National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science & ICT and Korea Customs Service (NRF-2021M3I1A1097895), and additionally, by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science & ICT (NRF-2019M2D2A1A02059814).

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