Irradiation setup at the U-120M cyclotron facility

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 894; pp. 87 - 95
• Main Authors: Křížek, F., Ferencei, J., Matlocha, T., Pospíšil, J., Príbeli, P., Raskina, V., Isakov, A., Štursa, J., Vaňát, T., Vysoká, K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 21-06-2018
• Subjects: Dosimetry; Particle irradiation facility; Radiation hardness; Single event effect; Single event transient; Single event upset; Single event transient; Particle irradiation facility; Dosimetry; Single event effect; Single event upset; Radiation hardness
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.066

This paper describes parameters of the proton beams provided by the U-120M cyclotron and the related irradiation setup at the open access irradiation facility at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The facility is suitable for testing radiation hardness of various electronic components. The use of the setup is illustrated by a measurement of an error rate for errors caused by Single Event Transients in an SRAM-based Xilinx XC3S200 FPGA. This measurement provides an estimate of a possible occurrence of Single Event Transients. Data suggest that the variation of error rate of the Single Event Effects for different clock phase shifts is not significant enough to use clock phase alignment with the beam as a fault mitigation technique.