Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras
Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT), a powerful technique for studying fluid and granular flows, has been developed at Birmingham over the last 30 years. In PEPT, a “positron camera” is used to detect the pairs of back-to-back photons emitted from positron annihilation. Accurate high-speed tr...
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| author | David J. Parker Dawid M. Hampel Tzanka Kokalova Wheldon |
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| description | Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT), a powerful technique for studying fluid and granular flows, has been developed at Birmingham over the last 30 years. In PEPT, a “positron camera” is used to detect the pairs of back-to-back photons emitted from positron annihilation. Accurate high-speed tracking of small tracer particles requires a positron camera with high sensitivity and data rate. In this paper, we compare the sensitivity and data rates obtained from the three principal cameras currently used at Birmingham. The recently constructed SuperPEPT and MicroPEPT systems have much higher sensitivity than the longstanding ADAC Forte and can generate data at much higher rates, greatly extending the potential for PEPT studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d230fa68fc6d4d4893d1b5c461c183452023-12-03T14:34:41ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172022-07-011214683310.3390/app12146833Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT CamerasDavid J. Parker0Dawid M. Hampel1Tzanka Kokalova Wheldon2School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UKSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UKSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UKPositron emission particle tracking (PEPT), a powerful technique for studying fluid and granular flows, has been developed at Birmingham over the last 30 years. In PEPT, a “positron camera” is used to detect the pairs of back-to-back photons emitted from positron annihilation. Accurate high-speed tracking of small tracer particles requires a positron camera with high sensitivity and data rate. In this paper, we compare the sensitivity and data rates obtained from the three principal cameras currently used at Birmingham. The recently constructed SuperPEPT and MicroPEPT systems have much higher sensitivity than the longstanding ADAC Forte and can generate data at much higher rates, greatly extending the potential for PEPT studies.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/14/6833PEPTpositron cameraparticle tracking |
| spellingShingle | David J. Parker Dawid M. Hampel Tzanka Kokalova Wheldon Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras Applied Sciences PEPT positron camera particle tracking |
| title | Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras |
| title_full | Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras |
| title_fullStr | Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras |
| title_short | Performance Evaluation of the Current Birmingham PEPT Cameras |
| title_sort | performance evaluation of the current birmingham pept cameras |
| topic | PEPT positron camera particle tracking |
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