A Novel Readout Scheme for Muon Tomography Application in Material Identification

  • Subhendu Das Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector I, AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
  • Sridhar Tripathy Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector I, AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India; York College, CUNY, New York, USA
  • Sandip Sarkar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector I, AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
  • Nayana Majumdar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector I, AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
  • Supratik Mukhopadhyay Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector I, AF Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31526/jais.2022.261
Keywords: muon tomography, data acquisition system, resistive plate chamber, NINO, FPGA

Abstract

This work reports on the development of a cost-effective, multiparameter readout and data acquisition
system for a muon scattering tomography system constructed with Resistive Plate Chambers. Initial test
measurements of the proposed readout scheme based on the NINO ASIC in the front-end with a lowcost FPGA at the back-end have been performed using a prototype Resistive Plate Chamber to study its event selection and data handling capabilities. The time-over-threshold property of NINO ASICs has been used to obtain position information from the detector. In our test setup, we studied absorption radiography images of a lead block using the hit information acquired with our novel readout scheme. The experimental data have been compared to numerical simulations to investigate the efficacy of the proposed readout system.

Published
2022-09-29
How to Cite
[1]
S. Das, S. Tripathy, S. Sarkar, N. Majumdar, and S. Mukhopadhyay, “A Novel Readout Scheme for Muon Tomography Application in Material Identification”, Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science, vol. 2022, Sep. 2022.
Issue
Volume 2022
Section
International Workshop on Cosmic-Ray Muography (Muography2021), Ghent, Belgium
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