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BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Case Western Reserve University, Center for Synchrotron Biosciences, Upton, New York, USA
SBU, Stony Brook, New York, USA
As a electronic material and wide-bandgap semiconductor, diamond has remarkable properties for radiation beam monitoring, especially in high flux environments. It's response has a phenomenal linearity to incident flux - over 11 orders of magnitude. It has the highest thermal conductivity of an material at room temperature - thus it can handle the heat load from high power beams. Recent advances in synthetic fabrication have made large area (5x5 sq mm or larger) beam imaging devices possible. Such devices can have a spatial resolution better than 50 nm, and a sub ns response time. Diamond x-ray beam position monitors are now commercially available, and beam position monitors for proton and hadron therapy beams are under development. A 1k pixel transparent beam imaging camera was recently demonstrated as well. This talk will plot the development pathway that led to these devices and showcase what the future holds.
