Cesium Iodide Crystal Calorimeter of the Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) Imager

Researchers at SCIPP, LLMU and NIU have collaborated to make a functioning proton imager. Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) is designated to be applied in proton therapy of human cancer systems. It will image head-sized phantom objects and provide excellent space and energy resolution using a silicon microstrip tracker and crystal calorimetry. The residual energy could be measured with precision of a few percent using a Cesium Iodide crystal calorimeter. A single element of the CsI(TI) calorimeter was tested in order to understand the behavior of the future calorimeter system. We present test results on a CsI(TI) calorimeter element with proton beams of 35, 100 and 200MeV. The detector element was designed to comply with the demands of high energy resolution of a few percent and a dynamic range of two orders of magnitude (1-300MeV) under a counting rate of 10 kHz per channel. We also report on cosmic measurement results of each crystal of the future calorimeter matrix. A detailed description of the calorimeter data acquisition system will be given.