Prototype profile: 3D-printed polystyrene-based plastic scintillator
The "3D printed Detector" (3DET) collaboration is investigating and developing additive manufacturing as a new production technique for the future scintillator particle detectors with performances comparable to the state of the art.
We present 3D-printed plastic scintillator particle detectors produced by use of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) technology.
Samples of scintillating filament together with white reflector filament as well as a matrix of optically isolated scintillator cubes will be shown.
Results of R&D phases can be obtained in the references [1] to [3].
3D printing of the polystyrene-based plastic scintillator
References:
1. Additive manufacturing of fine-granularity optically-isolated plastic scintillator elements, JINST 17 (2022) 10, P10045; arXiv: 2202.10961 [physics.ins-det]
2. A novel polystyrene-based scintillator production process involving additive manufacturing, JINST 15 (2020) 10, 10; arXiv: 2011.09859 [physics.ins-det]
3. Additive manufacturing of inorganic scintillator-based particle detectors, arXiv: 2212.13394 [physics.ins-det]
Umut Kose, The 3DET Collaboration: CERN, ETH Zurich, HEIG-VD, ISMA