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[en] The basic activities of the Department of Nuclear Electronics in 2006 were concentrated on the following areas: · studies of new scintillation techniques and their application to nuclear medicine and border monitoring, · contribution to FWVI European projects, · scientific contracts with European industry in respect to detection techniques · electronics for experiments in High Energy Physics, · development of γ-ray spectrometry apparatus, · development of new generation State of the Art USB based multi-channel analyzers supplied with Ethernet port and wireless connection, · development, investigation and production of silicon detectors, · normalization activities. Most of the scientific achievements of the Department were summarized in 27 publications (released or in press) and 8 submitted publications. The papers were published mainly in IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. and Nucl. Instr. Methods. Besides that, our scientists presented 20 contributions at international conferences - 6 presentations on IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging 2006 in San Diego, USA. Five invited talks were presented at International Conferences. Also normalization activities in preparation of the Polish versions of European Standards in the field of electronics were supported. In the study of new scintillation techniques, the tests of energy resolution and non-proportionality were carried out for LGSO and CsI(Tl) scintillators, and in the case of NaI(Tl) at reduced temperatures down to -40oC It shows more precisely an interesting observation of dependences of energy resolution and non-proportionality on a shaping time constant of the amplifier for scintillators with the light pulse consisting of two components. Within the studies addressed to the BioCare European project, realized within FWVI, the proposition of a new common PET/CT detector was developed. The further study of detectors for a Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography was also performed. In the frame of the contract with Photonnis, France the contribution to the development of new photomultipliers for gamma spectrometry with LaBr3 crystals and new fast photomultipliers for time-of-flight PET were carried out. A detector array assembly with lead collimators was designed, constructed and delivered to the EURITRACK project. The EURITRACK system has passed most of the tests in CAE Saclay before its moving to Rijeka harbour in Croatia for blind tests of real containers. The Department was involved in scientific collaborations with a number of international centres, such as CERN, Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, FZR Rossendorf, IKF Juelich, GSI Darmstadt, INFN Padova, CEA Saclay and Cadarache, IRB Zagreb, and companies as Saint-Gobain, Scionix in Holland, Photonis in France, ICX (former Target) in Germany, Siemens (former CTI) in USA and Hitachi Chemical, Japan. Additionally collaboration with IAEA in Vienna concerning monitoring of State borders was continued. Several scientific contracts were realized for European industry. The collaboration with the High Energy Physics Department of our Institute was focused on the LHCb experiment in CERN. Our contribution was to design basic hardware modules concerning overall control of the apparatus. In 2006 the designed and produced modules (over 100 in total) were installed in LHCb pit in Meyrin. Also the special module for monitoring LHC beam phase and intensity was proposed and designed. Our work on development of a new generation State of the Art USB based multi-channel analyzers are very promising. Our USB based device in the form of an autonomous miniature screened box was refined and finalized. It sold more than 20 copies all around the world. New project concerning new features of the device (Ethernet and wireless ports) is being designed and debugged. In the field of semiconductor detectors, besides continuation of previous work, activities concentrated on ion implantation (using TITAN implanter) for production of new type semiconductor radiation detectors. (author)
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Chmielewska, D.; Infeld, E.; Zupranski, P. (The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Swierk-Otwock (Poland)) (eds.); 202 p; ISSN 1232-5309;
; Jun 2007; p. 61; Also available at http://www.ipj.gov.pl

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