A low cost network of spectrometer radiation detectors based on the ArduSiPM a compact transportable Software/Hardware Data Acquisition system with Arduino DUE

摘要

The necessity to use Photo Multipliers (PM) as light detector limited in thepast the use of crystals in radiation handled device preferring the Geigerapproach. The Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are very small and cheap, solidphoton detectors with good dynamic range and single photon detectioncapability, they are usable to supersede in some application cumbersome anddifficult to use Photo Multipliers (PM). A SiPM can be coupled with ascintillator crystal to build efficient, small and solid radiation detector. Acost effective and easily replicable Hardware software module for SiPM detectorreadout is made using the ArduSiPM solution [1]. The ArduSiPM is an easilybattery operable handled device using an Arduino DUE (an open Software/Hardwareboard) as processor board and a piggy-back custom designed board (ArduSiPMShield), the Shield contains all the blocks features to monitor, set andacquire the SiPM using internet network.