High-energy proton radiography at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The LANL Proton radiography facility offers an imaging technique that gives spatial (50-200 um) and temporal (200 ns) resolution on thick samples ( ~cm ), where it is used for applications in nuclear stockpile stewardship  and studies of materials under high pressure. It utilizes protons that have multiple Coulomb scattered (MCS) through an object to create contrast in the transmission image [1].  I will give a brief overview of MCS-based proton radiography, our facility at LANL, and discuss the wide variety of applications of proton radiography.

1. 1.  C.L. Morris et al., Charged particle radiography. Rep. Prog. Phys. 76, 046301 (2013).