Simulation and optimization of a double THGEM detector

A double thick GEM (THGEM) detector with thin THGEM foils and small holes was constructed. In order to optimize the operation parameters of the detector, a simulation study of the detector was carried out using ANSYS and Garfield program. Some important characteristics, including primary electron transparency, avalanche development and the secondary electron loss were calculated. Parameters, such as electric field and gas choice were optimized.

Key Pose Frame Extraction Method of Human Motion Based on 3D Framework and X-Means

The key pose frames of a human motion pose sequence,play an important role in the compression,retrieval and semantic analysis of continuous human motion.The current available clustering methods in literatures are difficult to determine the number of key pose frames automatically,and may destroy the postures’ temporal relationships while extracting key frames.To deal with this problem,this paper proposes a new key pose frames extraction method on the basis of 3D space distances of joint points and the improved X-means clustering algorithm.According to the proposed extraction method,the final key pose frame sequence could be obtained by describing the posture of human body with space distance of particular joint points and then the time-constraint X-mean algorithm is applied to cluster and filtrate the posture sequence.The experimental results show that the proposed method can automatically determine the number of key frames and save the temporal characteristics of motion frames according to the motion pose sequence.

Simulation and optimization of the boron-lined MWPC neutron detectors

Purpose Boron-lined gas detectors are prospective alternatives to helium-3-based neutron detectors.For boron-lined multiwire proportional chamber(MWPC)with neutron grazing incident angle geometry,high neutron detection efficiency and 3D position sensitive can be realized.In this paper,a multi-layer boron-lined MWPC was studied.Methods Influences of the boron coating thickness,coating layer numbers and neutron incident angle on the neutron detection efficiency were studied and optimized with Geant4 simulation.The output signal properties including induced signal width on the readout plane,the time resolution and gas gain uniformity of the detector were studied with Garfield program.Results and conclusion The results show that the neutron detection efficiency can be significantly increased by using neutron grazing incident geometry.For 4 layers of 10B4Cwith thickness of 1μm,the neutron detection efficiency can reach to 54.56%,49.17%and 44.36%when neutron incident angle is 6°,8°and 10°,respectively.For detector with curved geometry,the gas gain is nonuniform among the anode wires,and using separate high voltage for each anode wire or wires group can effectively reduce the nonuniform of the gas gain.The results of this work can be used to optimize the detector design.

Influence of working gas properties on MWPC anode wire modulation effect

For MWPCs used for X-ray position detection, simulation studies of the anode wire modulation effect of the detector were carried out using the Garfield program. Different gas mixtures were used as the working gas in the simulation, so as to obtain the influence of the X-ray cross section and electron diffusion coefficient of the working gases on the anode wire modulation effect of an MWPC with anode wire spacing of 2 mm. Results show that, though a working gas with higher X-ray cross section implies a larger average drift distance for the ionized electrons, such gas mixtures are of little use in improving the anode wire modulation effect of MWPCs. It is found that the transverse electron diffusion coefficient is the determining factor for the extent of the anode wire modulation effect in the detector.

Simulation study of the parallax ef f ect of gaseous detectors

A simulation study of the parallax effect of gaseous detectors using the Garfield program is reported. A method that mainly uses non-uniform cathode potentials to reduce the parallax error of planar type gas detectors is described. By applying it to MWPC and Micro-pattern gas detectors, the method reduces the parallax broadening with very good results. For a 13° incidence track, the width （FWHM） of the parallax broadening is reduced to less than 20% of the normal one after using the special cathode potentials.

The research of laser-based rapid measurement system for scintillator neutron detectors arrays

Purpose Scintillator Neutron Detectors Arrays(SNDA)were successfully installed at General Purpose Powder Diffractome-ter(GPPD)at the China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS).The inhomogeneity of the detection efficiency in each detector module,which caused by the gain nonuniformity of the multi-anode photo-multiplier tubes(MA-PMTs)and the inconsistency of the wave-length shifting fibers in collecting scintillation photons,need to be mitigated before the installation.Methods An automated rapid measurement system based on the blue laser and the two-dimensional mobile platform was developed to calibrate the light response of each channel in detector modules.According to the test results of this system,the electronics threshold of each channel of the SNDA is adjusted.Before the installation of the all 40 SNDA modules in GPPD,the electronics thresholds of each channel are adjusted according to the measurement results of this rapid measurement system.Results and Conclusion Compared with the unadjusted detector module,the adjusted one obtained a better uniformity of the neutron detection efficiency.The inhomogeneity of the detection efficiency is improved from 27.4%to 10.9%.The test result of the diffraction peak of the standard sample Si showed that the adjusted SNDA works well in GPPD.