Transmission charged-particle detectors using CVD diamond thin film for single ion hit measurement

Kada, Wataru; Sato, Takahiro; Makino, Takahiro; Onoda, Shinobu; Koka, Masashi; Oshima, Takeshi; Kamiya, Tomihiro; Grilj, V.*; Skukan, N.*; Jaksic, M.*

KEK Proceedings 2012-8, p.89 - 98, 2012/12

http://ccdb5fs.kek.jp/tiff/2012/1225/1225008.pdf

Transmissive particle detectors using thin-film diamond were newly developed for the individual detection of single-hit of heavy ions. Two type of the detectors were developed using poly- and single-crystalline diamond films with thickness of upper 50 m, which could be alternative candidate material of beam-extraction window. The detectors were irradiated at off- and on-line environment using alpha-particle sources and microbeam lines of two tandem accelerators placed at TARRI, JAEA and RBI. From point of view in the response of energy spectrum and detection efficiency, it was experimentally examined that the thin-film of single-crystalline diamond was well respond to the irradiation of single ions with energy of several MeV.