A new imaging technique for α-particles using a fast optical camera focused on a thin scintillator is presented. As α-particles interact in a thin layer of LYSO fast scintillator, they produce a localized flash of light. The light is collected with a lens to an intensified optical camera, Tpx3Cam, with single photon sensitivity and excellent spatial & temporal resolutions. The interactions of photons with the camera is reconstructed by means of a custom algorithm, capable of discriminating single photons using time and spatial information.
@article{arxiv.2010.15185,
title = {Novel imaging technique for $\alpha$-particles using a fast optical camera},
author = {Gabriele D'Amen and Michael Keach and Andrei Nomerotski and Peter Svihra and Alessandro Tricoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15185},
year = {2020}
}