Radiation damage evaluation of the CCD detector induced by high energy protons

Wang, Zujun; Xue, Yexiang; Zhang, Fengqi; Bian, Jingying; Ma, Wuying; Yao, Zhibin; He, Bin; Sheng, Jiangkun; Dong, Guangyu

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.07.042

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“…Shields not only protect robots from malfunctioning, but also decrease detector noises that arise from the irradiation background [44][45][46]. Lead is used to shield the photomultiplier tube (PMT)) mounted on the UGV that is used to detect the energy and the direction of gamma sources [47].…”

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Allocation of Radiation Shielding Boards to Protect the Urban Search and Rescue Robots from Malfunctioning in the Radioactive Environments Arising from Decommissioning of the Nuclear Facility

2020

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A group of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) works in the city’s dangerous places that are caused by natural disasters or the decommissioning of nuclear facilities such as the nuclear power plant. Consider the multi sensor platform that the USAR UGV is equipped with, protecting the sensors from the danger that dwells in the working environments is highly related to the success of the USAR mission. The radioactive working environments due to the diffusion of the radioactive materials during the decommissioning of the nuclear facilities are proposed in this work. Radiation shielding boards are used to protect the sensors by installing them on the UGV. Generally, the more shielding boards installed on the UGV, the lower the probability of the sensor malfunctioning. With a large number of UGVs that are used in missions, a large number of shielding boards are needed. Considering the cost of the boards, a conflict between the finite budget and the best protection for the UGV swarm occurs. Due to differences in environments and working times, an asymmetric allocation of shielding boards might protect the UGV swarm better than that by allocating evenly. To minimize the absorption radiation doses, two methods including competitive equilibrium analysis and integer linear programming are proposed. The performances that result from the allocation of the shielding boards by two methods with different budgets are studied.

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