Characteristics of piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate fourteen-layered detector bombarded with high-energy xenon beam

Seiji Takechi*, Takashi Miyachi, Masayuki Fujii, Nobuyuki Hasebe, Kunishiro Mori, Hiromi Shibata, Takeshi Murakami, Yukio Uchihori, Nagaya Okada

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    Abstract

    A radiation detector composed of fourteen lead zirconate titanate (PZT) disks was studied by directly irradiating it using a 400 MeV/n xenon beam while changing the beam intensity and beam pulse duration. The results obtained indicated that the sensitivity of the detector per xenon ion was explicitly dependent on the beam pulse duration. Comparing the sensitivity among PZT detectors with one, fourteen and one hundred layers, it was also found that the sensitivity of the fourteen-layered detector was highest under the experimental conditions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)365-368
    Number of pages4
    JournalSensors and Actuators, A: Physical
    Volume147
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008 Oct 3

    Keywords

    • Acoustic radiation detector
    • Lead zirconate titanate (PZT)
    • Multilayer
    • Piezoelectricity
    • Radiology

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Instrumentation

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