Recently a new high energy proton microscopy facility PRIOR (Proton Microscope for FAIR) has been designed, constructed and successfully commissioned at GSI Helmholtzzentrum f\"ur Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt, Germany). As a result of the experiments with 3.5-4.5 GeV proton beams delivered by the heavy ion synchrotron SIS-18 of GSI, 30 um spatial and 10 ns temporal resolutions of the proton microscope have been demostrated. A new pulsed power setup for studying properties of matter under extremes has been developed for the dynamic commissioning of the PRIOR facility. This paper describes the PRIOR setup as well as the results of the first static and dynamic proton radiography experiments performed at GSI.
@article{arxiv.1512.05644,
title = {Commissioning of the PRIOR proton microscope},
author = {D. Varentsov and O. Antonov and A. Bakhmutova and C. W. Barnes and A. Bogdanov and C. R. Danly and S. Efimov and M. Endres and A. Fertman and A. A. Golubev and D. H. H. Hoffmann and B. Ionita and A. Kantsyrev and Ya. E. Krasik and P. M. Lang and I. Lomonosov and F. G. Mariam and N. Markov and F. E. Merrill and V. B. Mintsev and D. Nikolaev and V. Panyushkin and M. Rodionova and M. Schanz and K. Schoenberg and A. Semennikov and L. Shestov and V. S. Skachkov and V. Turtikov and S. Udrea and O. Vasylyev and K. Weyrich and C. Wilde and A. Zubareva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05644},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
9 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments