Abstract
The 65k pixel TimePix3 chip with ToA of 1.5625 [ns] nominal time resolution allows for timing and imaging studies using X-ray, neutron, and electron spectroscopies. The EPICS ADTimePix3 areaDetector driver enables detector control and integration into a neutron beamline acquisition system. This presentation will discuss the recent development of the detector's integration into neutron and X-ray beamlines and selected results.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 32nd Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC 2024 |
| Editors | Kelly Jaje |
| Publisher | JACoW Publishing |
| Pages | 725-727 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783954502196 |
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| State | Published - 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 32nd Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC 2024 - Chicago, United States Duration: Aug 25 2024 → Aug 30 2024 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC |
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| ISSN (Print) | 2226-0366 |
Conference
| Conference | 32nd Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC 2024 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Chicago |
| Period | 08/25/24 → 08/30/24 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (https://www.energy.gov/doe-public-access-plan). The author would like to express his gratitude to the ICS hardware group at ESS for their invaluable assistance, support, and review during the development of this driver, with special thanks to Douglas Araujo and Tomasz Bry\u015B. It is important to note that their implementation differs slightly. The Serval application uses UDP solely for controlling the detector, while all data bypasses areaDetector, going directly to the server cluster for analysis, processing and storage. Additionally, neutron events are synchronized with absolute time at ESS with an accuracy of less than a microsecond [8]. Erik Maddox helped with the detector's inner workings and provided changes to SERVAL. Fumiaki Funama and Su-Ann Chong provided invaluable feedback for the improvement of the driver when used with neutron counting. Bogdan Vacaliuc initiated the development of systemd integration for SERVAL and Emulator. William Smith from Helmholtz-Berlin indicated the need for 'count_fb' mode support in the driver.