IMAT commissioning: Detailed characterization of vacuum sealed neutron sensitive microchannel plate imagers

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Neutron sensitive Microchannel Plates (MCP) have been fabricated and tested in a number of imaging configurations over the past decade, however to date the majority of these systems rely on mounting the MCPs in a vacuum chamber that must be actively pumped. These systems are bulky, difficult to maintain, and the MCPs are difficult to properly process for long lifetime and minimum image burn-in. We have recently built several sealed vacuum tubes incorporating neutron MCPs using MCP processing techniques originally developed for long-life image intensifiers. In this project we will fully characterize two neutron cameras for imaging performance and burn-in. Successful demonstration of these cameras will enable widespread adoption of this technology for neutron radiography, providing the community with improved sensitivity and ease of use.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98069318
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98069318
Provenance
Creator Mr David Slater; Dr Daniel Pooley; Dr Paul Hink; Dr Panos Kapetanopoulos; Dr Winfried Kockelmann; Mr Chris Slatter
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-07T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-09T23:00:00Z