Funct. Mater. 2013; 20 (3): 390-392.

http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/fm20.03.390

Alpha particle detector based on micro pixel avalanche photodiodes

F.Ahmadov[1,4], O.Abdinov[2], G.Ahmadov[1,4], N.Anfimov[1], A.Garibov[1,3], E.Guliyev[1,4], Z.Krumshtein[1], R.Madatov[4], A.Olshevski[1], V.Shvetsov[1], A.Sadigov[1,4], Z.Sadygov[1,2], A.Titov[3], V.Zhezher[1]

[1]Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 6 Joliot-Curie St., 141980 Dubna, Moskovskaya obl., Russia
[2]Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, 33 H.Cavid Ave., 1143 Baku, Azerbaijan
[3]All-Russian Research Institute of Automatics, 22 Suschevskaya St., 127055 Moscow, Russia
[4]Institute of Radiation Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, 9 Vaxabzade St., 1143 Baku, Azerbaijan
[5]LLR Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 91128 Cedex, France

Abstract: 

The main goal of this work is a study of possibility to detect alpha particles by micro-pixel avalanche photodiode (MAPD) which has very thin active volume (4  μ m) and by micro-pixel avalanche photodiode in combination with Lutetium Fine Silicate (LFS) scintillators (500  μ m thickness). The obtained results show that alpha detectors based on MAPD are expected to be useful in many applications: public security (Associated Particle Imaging for explosives and drugs detection), radioactive contamination monitoring in various environments and detection of charged particles from nuclear reactions.

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