AST Technology In:

Welcome to the "AST Technology In:" page.

This section of our website is dedicated to showcasing some of the projects which utilise AST technology.

The ISIS centre, at The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Oxford in the UK, have used AST's technology in their Target Station 1 & 2 Instruments since 1989 when the first ⁶LiF ZnS:Ag scintillators were shipped to RAL for their TS1 detectors.

Since that time RAL and AST have worked together on many projects and AST have supplied scintillators to 17 of the (25) neutron scattering instruments currently operating at ISIS, as shown in the highlighted diagram (below). In addition AST has provided scintillators for nearly all of the 84 neutron beam line monitors associated with these instruments. View a full list of detectors and monitors supplied.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) use AST technology in many of their instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) including ⁶Li glass in Anger scintillation cameras (as shown in the image, left).

AST have been involved in the production of ⁶Li glass scintillators for many Anger cameras, used at ORNL, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Rutherford Appleton laboratory (RAL) and the Forschungszentrum Jülich research center.

AST has provided ORNL with ⁶LiF ZnS:Ag scintillators, utilising the V-groove design (pictured, left) which was developed to provide additional surface area. The AST scintillator attached to ORNL wavelength shifting fibres can be seen in the picture below.