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VESUVIO: Neutron Camera #3847

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

As a Vesuvio Instrument scientist, I would like to use a neutron camera within IBEX.

Currently, they have a user using one separate from IBEX on VESUVIO but are looking to get one in the future and were wondering if we can support it within IBEX.

We need to check with VESUVIO what make and model they want us to support and if we already support it (I understand IMAT already use one).

kjwoodsISIS commented 5 years ago

This will require some discussion. Hopefully, there can be some coordination between VESUVIO and IMAT (and potentially other instruments) on how neutron cameras are controlled and the type of data they produce.

ChrisM-S commented 5 years ago

It is probably wise to make a distinction here between 1) a "neutron beam" camera for looking at the beam shape, position etc. interactively, this is usually CCD style camera with a channel plate/scintillator front end which produces a "picture or the beam" much like a webcam. These ideally would come through a Gig-e interface but would be amenable to an image display in IBEX (perhaps with some image processing or snapshot capability). 2) "Serious" neutron cameras like those used on IMAT for data acquisition and taking data at ISIS frame rate of >10Hz for later analysis (possibly with energy selection). The data size and rate is unlikely suitable for an ordinary video stream and would need integrating more as an "Area Detector" style device after some pre-processing, currently this is usually on a separate PC. To be fair, these cameras can obviously picture a beam as in (2) as a trivial case (for example on IMAT using pixelman or area detector like the DAE live view).