Capillary Plate Gas Research Articles

Imaging characteristics of glass capillary plate gas detector

A glass capillary plate (CP) gas detector with gas mixtures of He, Ne, Ar, and Xe has been successfully operated as a visible and near-infrared (NIR) scintillation proportional counter. Gas gains of up to 104 can be achieved using these gas mixtures. The scintillation light emitted during the generation of electron avalanches can be observed using a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and a compact optical imaging system that consists of a CP gas detector and a cooled CCD camera coupled to lens optics. Using this optical imaging system, clearer X-ray images have been obtained with the above gas mixtures. The dependence of the imaging quality on the pressure in the range 0.25–1atm was also investigated for the Ar (90%)+CF4 (10%) gas mixture. The successful operations using these gas mixtures have allowed us to realize a novel imaging device with a CP gas detector for gaseous PMTs sensitive to visible light.

Optical Imaging Capillary Plate Gas Detector

A capillary plate (CP) gas detector with a CF <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sub> gas mixture of argon and pure xenon has been successfully operated as a visible and near-infrared (NIR) scintillation proportional counter. Gas gains of up to 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sup> can be achieved using these gas mixtures. The scintillation light emitted during the generation of electron avalanches can be observed using a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and a compact optical imaging system which consists of a CP gas detector and a cooled charge-coupled device (CCD) camera coupled to lens optics. Using this optical imaging system, clearer images of X-rays have been obtained with the above gas mixtures. The successful operation using these gas mixtures has allowed us to realize a novel imaging device with a CP for medical imaging and gaseous PMTs sensitive to visible light.

Characteristics of optical imaging capillary plate gas detector with fiber optic plate

A capillary plate (CP) gas detector with fiber optic plate (FOP) has been successfully operated as a gas scintillation proportional counter. A thin film of indium tinoxide (ITO) was used for the transparent electrode of the CP. Scintillation light emitted during the development of electron avalanches can be observed through the FOP using a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and an optical imaging system, which consists of a CP gas detector and a cooled CCD camera coupled to lens optics. Using this optical imaging system, clearer images of X-rays have been obtained. Successful operation with the CP gas detector and the FOP has allowed us to realize a novel imaging device for medical imaging, cellular function analysis, and X-ray imaging.

Developments of optical imaging capillary plate gas detector

An optical imaging capillary plate (CP) gas detector has been successfully developed for a gas mixture of Ar+CF 4. Gas gains of up to 10 4 can be achieved with a single CP. Scintillation light simultaneously emitted during the development of electron avalanches can be observed using a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and optical imaging system which consists of a CP gas detector and a cooled CCD camera coupled to lens optics. The energy resolutions obtained for the charge signal and the light signal were 22% and 24% for 10 keV X-rays, respectively. Using the optical imaging system, clearer images of X-rays have been obtained with the gas mixture. Successful operation with this gas mixture has allowed us to realise a novel-imaging device with CP for X-ray imaging, cold neutron imaging, medical imaging, and cellular function analysis.

Performance of optical imaging capillary plate gas detector with synchrotron radiation

We have been developing an X-ray photoelectron tracking imager based on a glass capillary plate (CP) gas detector for cosmic X-ray polarimetry applications. The optical imaging system consists of a CP gas detector filled with a noble-gas mixture and a cooled CCD camera coupled to an optical lens system. The performance of the optical imaging CP gas detector as an X-ray polarimeter was investigated with highly polarized, well-monochromized, and well-collimated X-ray beams at the synchrotron radiation facilities in SPring-8 and KEK-PF. Owing to the fine imaging capability of the optical imaging CP gas detector, images of X-ray photoelectron tracks were clearly observed for the polarized X-rays. A modulation factor of 26% was obtained for a 15 keV polarized X-ray beam, for which the energy resolution was 13%. We report on the properties of the optical imaging CP gas detector as an X-ray polarimeter and describe the outlook on future developments on the basis of the measured characteristics and the results of Monte Carlo simulations.

Soda-glass capillary plate gas detector

A new capillary plate (CP) has been developed for a hole-type micropattern gas detector. The plate consists of a bundle of fine soda-glass capillaries with a diameter of 100 /spl mu/m and a length of 1 mm. The electrodes on the surfaces of both ends of CP were coated with Inconel metal. The plate is similar to a conventional CP, except that the material used is not lead glass, but soda glass. The main advantages of the soda-glass CP compared to the lead-glass CP are a low surface resistivity and low background properties. The soda-glass CP gas detector was operated with a gas mixture of Ar(90%) + CH/sub 4/(8%) + TMA(2%) using 5.9 keV X-rays. Using the scintillation light emitted from the soda-glass CP, we successfully obtained the energy spectrum and accumulated image for the 5.9 keV X-rays. In this paper, we report on the characteristics of the new soda-glass CP and the background properties of both the soda-glass and lead-glass CPs. We also describe the outlook on the future development of an optical gas photomultiplier with the soda-glass CP.