Many scientific experiments and radiation detection techniques require localization of charged particle tracks. Scintillating optical fiber arrays (both two dimensional and volumetric) are developed and initially tested which can serve as the primary detector in charged particle track imaging and detection systems. Images of low energy proton and relativistic neon, manganese, and old nuclei tracks are obtained using a bundle of the scintillating optical fiber and the detector concept appears promising. However new techniques, as well as significant additional development and refinement of the present techniques, are required to successfully scale up to a large scintillator fiber detector which is generally useful for high resolution imaging applications. This project is directed toward the development of scintillating optical fibers and fiber arrays with adequate dimensional uniformity and light transmission so that spatial resolution of 100 microns can be obtained in large detector arrays.
