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A compact and portable X-ray beam position monitor using Medipix3
O. Rico-Alvarez, A. Kachatkou, J. Marchal, B. Willis, K. Sawhney, N. Tartoni and R.G. van Silfhout
In: Journal of Instrumentation: 16th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RADIATION IMAGING DETECTORS; 22 Jun 2015-26 Jun 2014; Trieste, Italy. UK: IOP PUBLISHING; 2014. p. 1-6.
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The present work reports on the design and implementation of a novel portable Xraybeam diagnostics (XBPM) device. The device is transparent to the X-ray beam and provides real-time measurements of beam position, intensity, and size. The measurement principle is based on a pinhole camera which records scattered radiation from a Kapton foil which is placed in the beam path. The use of hybrid detectors (Medipix3) that feature a virtually noiseless readout system with capability of single photon detection and energy resolving power enables the diagnostics with a better resolution and higher sensitivity compared to the use of traditional indirect X-ray detection schemes.We describe the detailed system design, which consists of a vacuum compatible focal plane sensor array, a sensor conditioning and readout board and a heterogeneous data processing unit, which also acts as a network server that handles network communications with clients. The readout protocol for the Medipix3 sensor is implemented using field programmable gate array (FPGA) logic resulting in a versatile and scalable system that is capable of performing advanced functions such as data compression techniques and feature extraction. For the system performance measurements, we equipped the instrument with a single Medipix3 die, bump bonded to a Si sensor, rather than four for which it was designed. Without data compression, it is capable of acquiring magnified images and profiles of synchrotron X-ray beams at a transfer rate through Ethernet of 27 frames/s for one Medipix3 die.
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