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LIDAL, a Time-of-Flight Radiation Detector for the International Space Station: Description and Ground Calibration

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卷 23, 期 7, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s23073559

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space radiation; detector calibration; time-of-flight measurement

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LIDAL is a radiation detector that measures the flux, energy spectra, and time-of-flight of ions in a space habitat. It combines striped silicon sensors for energy measurement and fast scintillators for time-of-flight measurement. Tested and calibrated in 2019, LIDAL demonstrated a time resolution of less than 100 ps. It has been operational in the International Space Station since January 2020.
LIDAL (Light Ion Detector for ALTEA, Anomalous Long-Term Effects on Astronauts) is a radiation detector designed to measure the flux, the energy spectra and, for the first time, the time-of-flight of ions in a space habitat. It features a combination of striped silicon sensors for the measurement of deposited energy (using the ALTEA device, which operated from 2006 to 2012 in the International Space Station) and fast scintillators for the time-of-flight measurement. LIDAL was tested and calibrated using the proton beam line at TIFPA (Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics Application) and the carbon beam line at CNAO (National Center for Oncology Hadron-therapy) in 2019. The performance of the time-of-flight system featured a time resolution (sigma) less than 100 ps. Here, we describe the detector and the results of these tests, providing ground calibration curves along with the methodology established for processing the detector's data. LIDAL was uploaded in the International Space Station in November 2019 and it has been operative in the Columbus module since January 2020.

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