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Boillat Eric

Professeur HES associé

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Professeur HES associé

Büro: R08 / A27

Haute école d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud
Route de Cheseaux 1, 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains, CH

BSc HES-SO en Ingénierie et gestion industrielles - Haute école d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud

Fabrication additive - Impression 3D
Procédés de micro-fabrication et applications

2023

3D printing of inorganic scintillator-based particle detectors

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel ArODES

T. Sibilieva, V. Alekseev, Sergey Barsuk, Siddartha Berns, Eric Boillat, I. Boiaryntseva, A. Boiaryntsev, A. Carbone, A. De Roeck, S. Dolan, T. Driuk, A. Gendotti, I. Gerasymov, B. Grynyov, Sylvain Hugon, U. Kose, O. Opolonin, A. Rubbia, D. Sgalaberna, M. Sibilyev, S. Tretyak, T. Weber, J. Wuthrich, X. Y. Zhao

Journal of Instrumentation, 2023, vol. 18, article no. P03007

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Zusammenfassung:

Inorganic scintillators are widely used for scientific, industrial and medical applications. The development of 3D printing with inorganic scintillators would allow the fast creation of detector prototypes for the registration of ionizing radiation, such as alpha, beta and gamma particles in thin layers of active material, and X-ray radiation. This article reports on the technical work and scientific achievements that aimed at developing a new inorganic scintillation filament to be used for the 3D printing of composite scintillator materials: study and definition of the scintillator composition; development of the methods for the inorganic scintillator filament production and further implementation in the available 3D printing technologies; study of the impact of the different 3D printing modes on the material scintillation characteristics. Also, 3D-printed scintillators can be used to produce combined detectors for high-energy physics.

2022

Additive manufacturing of fine-granularity optically-isolated plastic scintillator elements

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel ArODES

Siddartha Berns, Eric Boillat, A. Boyarintsev, Albert de Roeck, Stephen Dolan, Adamo Gendotti, Borys Grynyov, Sylvain Hugon, Umut Kose, S. Kovalchuk, B. Li, T. Sibilieva, Davide Sgalaberna, Thomas Weber, Johannes Wuthrich, X. Y. Zhao

Journal of Instrumentation, 2022

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Plastic scintillator detectors are used in high energy physics as well as for diagnostic imaging in medicine, beam monitoring on hadron therapy, muon tomography, dosimetry and many security applications. To combine particle tracking and calorimetry it is necessary to build detectors with three-dimensional granularity, i.e. small voxels of scintillator optically isolated from each other. Recently, the 3DET collaboration demonstrated the possibility to 3D print polystyrene-based scintillators with a light output performance close to that obtained with standard production methods. In this article, after providing a further characterization of the developed scintillators, we show the first matrix of plastic scintillator cubes optically separated by a white reflector material entirely 3D printed with fused deposition modeling. This is a major milestone towards the 3D printing of the first real particle detector. A discussion of the results as well as the next steps in the R&D is also provided.

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Boillat Eric

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Additive manufacturing

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