MS38-02 - Subpixel Spatial Resolution at 122 keV of an Spectroscopic Imager Composed of a pnCCD Coupled to a Columnar CsI(Tl) Scintillator

Mohammad Shokr (University of Siegen, Germany) 

New generation beam lines offer energies up to 150 keV and above. With hard X-rays it is possible to investigate bulk properties of materials in Laue diffraction experiments with white X-ray beams. Therefore highly energy and spatially resolving detectors are required with high quantum efficiency up to 150 keV. We realized a detector consisting of a 450 µm thick pnCCD with a pixel size of 75µm x75µm coupled to a 700 µm thick columnar CsI(Tl) scintillator with a high quantum efficiency in the energy range from 0.5 keV to 100 keV and above. The detector is front side illuminated, so that X-rays up to15 keV are mainly absorbed “directly” inside the pnCCD and energies above are mainly stopped in the scintillator, where the deposited energy is converted into scintillation photons, which are also detected by the pnCCD. This mode is called “indirect detection”. In previous works we determined the energy resolution to be FWHM/E = 9% at 122 keV for indirect detection and 0.7%. In this work we have investigated the spatial resolution of the imaging detector in a “knife edge” experiment at 122keV. We will show that the spatial resolution reaches subpixel values of about 30µm, which is mainly limited by the track length of the generated secondaries inside the scintillator. This is in agreement with Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulations, which have been performed.