This article reports on the development and experimental results of commercial plasma display panels adapted for their potential use as micropattern gas radiation detectors. The plasma panel sensors (PPS) design an materials include glass substrates, metal electrodes and inert gas mixtures which provide a physically robust, hermetically-sealed device. Plasma display panels used as detectors were tested with cosmic ray muons, beta rays and gamma rays, protons and thermal neutrons. The results demonstrated rise times and time resolution of a few nanoseconds, as well as sub-millimeter spatial resolution compatible with the pixel pitch.
@article{arxiv.1403.3454,
title = {Development of a plasma panel radiation detector},
author = {R. Ball and J. R. Beene and M. Ben-Moshe and Y. Benhammou and R. Bensimon and J. W. Chapman and E. Etzion and C. Ferretti and P. S. Friedman and D. S. Levin and Y. Silver and R. L. Varner and C. Weaverdyck and R. Wetzel and B. Zhou and T. Anderson and K. McKinny and E. H. Bentefour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3454},
year = {2014}
}