Experimental Methods and Setup
A custom run plan was created to test simulated dose per pulse results. This run plan began with an attempt to show reproducibility. To find how reproducible the OSLs are, a single OSL was placed in the center of the beam spot of the 25b accelerator at the IAC. The IAC engineers set up the centered laser for experimental use, and using a glass plate placed at 50cm, OSLs were exposed to a differing number of pulses under the same beam characteristics. The characteristics chosen for this experiment for are a beam energy of 8MeV, pulse width of 500ns, and peak current of 50mA.
-> Run plan
Through this run plan, dose per pulse measurements are recorded. As the OSLs have a maximum operating point at 1500 Rad, it was decided to keep the dose in the middle of the operating range. With the listed beam characteristics, six unattenuated pulses is the maximum possible to subject the OSLs to without saturation concerns.
- The point of the electrons was to find dose/pulse information on-axis of the accelerator to help find total dose for quartz. This information was then used to irradiate some quartz and ABS plastic samples to a known dose, to allow for rad hard tests. Along with structural integrity tests in the plastic. (transparency in quartz).
-> run plan