Detailed calibration of the PI-LCX: 1300 high performance single photon counting hard x-ray CCD camera

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/2/025204

Abstract X-ray charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera working in single photon counting mode is a type of x-ray spectrometer with high-sensitivity and superior signal-to-noise performance. In this study, two single photon counting CCD cameras with the same mode (model: PI-LCX: 1300) are calibrated with quasi-monochromatic x-rays from radioactive sources and a conventional x-ray tube. The details of the CCD response to x-rays are analyzed by using a computer program of multi-pixel analyzing and event-distinguishing capability. The detection efficiency, energy resolution, fraction of multi-pixel events each as a function of x-ray energy, and consistence of two CCD cameras are obtained. The calibrated detection efficiency is consistent with the detection efficiency from Monte Carlo calculations with XOP program. When the multi-pixel event analysis is applied, the CCDs may be used to measure x-rays up to 60 keV with good energy resolution (E/ΔE≈100 at 60 keV). The difference in detection efficiency between two CCD cameras is small (5.6% at 5.89 keV), but the difference in fraction of the single pixel event between them is much larger (25% at 8.04 keV). The obtained small relative error of detection efficiency (2.4% at 5.89 keV) makes the high accurate measurement of x-ray yield possible in the laser plasma interaction studies. Based on the discrete calibration results, the calculated detection efficiency with XOP can be used for the whole range of 5 keV-30 keV.

Keywords: hard x-ray detector single photon counting CCD calibration laser plasmas

Received: 19 October 2016
Revised: 22 November 2016
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PACS:	52.38.-r	(Laser-plasma interactions)
	52.59.Px	(Hard X-ray sources)
	52.70.La	(X-ray and γ-ray measurements)
	07.85.Nc	(X-ray and γ-ray spectrometers)

Fund: Project supported by the Science Foundation of China Academy of Engineering Physics (Grant Nos. 2013A0103003 and 2012B0102008) and the National High-Tech Inertial Confinement Fusion Committee of China.

Corresponding Authors: Wei Hong
E-mail: jminhong@126.com

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Wei Hong(洪伟), Xian-Lun Wen(温贤伦), Lai Wei(魏来), Bin Zhu(朱斌), Yu-Chi Wu(吴玉迟), Ke-Gong Dong(董克攻), Chun-Ye Jiao(焦春晔), Bo Wu(伍波), Ying-Ling He(何颖玲), Fa-Qiang Zhang(张发强), Wei-Min Zhou(周维民), Yu-Qiu Gu(谷渝秋) Detailed calibration of the PI-LCX: 1300 high performance single photon counting hard x-ray CCD camera 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 025204

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