EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2016)

J-PET detector system for studies of the electron-positron annihilations

  • Pawlik-Niedźwiecka M.,
  • Khreptak O.,
  • Gajos A.,
  • Wieczorek A.,
  • Alfs D.,
  • Bednarski T.,
  • Białas P.,
  • Curceanu C.,
  • Czerwiński E.,
  • Dulski K.,
  • Głowacz B.,
  • Gupta-Sharma N.,
  • Gorgol M.,
  • Hiesmayr B. C.,
  • Jasińska B.,
  • Kamińska D.,
  • Korcyl G.,
  • Kowalski P.,
  • Krzmień W.,
  • Krawczyk N.,
  • Kubicz E.,
  • Mohammed M.,
  • Niedźwiecki Sz.,
  • Raczyński L.,
  • Rudy Z.,
  • Silarski M.,
  • Wiślicki W.,
  • Zgardzińska B.,
  • Zieliński M.,
  • Moskal P.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201613007020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 130
p. 07020

Abstract

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Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) has been recently constructed at the Jagiellonian University as a prototype of a cost-effective scanner for the metabolic imaging of the whole human body. J-PET detector is optimized for the measurement of momentum and polarization of photons from the electron-positron annihilations. It is built out of strips of plastic scintillators, forming three cylindrical layers. As detector of gamma quanta it will be used for studies of discrete symmetries and multiparticle entanglement of photons originating from the decays of ortho-positronium atoms.