Date of Award

1-1-2011

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Physics

Content Description

1 online resource (xxiii, 251 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Muhammad Sajjad Alam

Committee Members

Patrick Skubic, Jagadish Garg, Akthar Mehmood, Samya Zain, Zeno Dixon Greenwood

Keywords

Energy, Experimental, Flight, High, Physics, Time of, Time-of-flight mass spectrometry, Scintillation counters

Subject Categories

Physics

Abstract

We have built a prototype time-of-flight system named Albany Particle Testing and Training Tower (APT3) based on scintillation counters (Lucite or Poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA)) with dimensions (50 × 8 × 5 cm3). The CAMAC based data acquisition (DAQ) system and control setup to collect and process information from a scintillation detector using LabVIEW (v.8.5) has been developed. We have also studied the timing resolution of APT3 setup as a function of the hit position of the particle beam (cosmic muons) from the scintillation counter and as a function of the high voltage applied to the scintillation counter. After locating the best position of the cosmic beam from the scintillation counter and the best value of high voltage for the scintillation counter, we have achieved a resolution of the order of 100 ps for APT3 setup.

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