Read-out of scintillating fibres using a weak cross-talk position-sensitive photomultiplier

Fast and precise readout of scintillating fibres (SciFi) has a great potential for fast tracking and triggering at high-luminosity particle physics experiments. In the framework of the RD-17 experiment at CERN (FAROS) significant milestones in the development of SciFi detectors using position-sensit...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 1998-04, Vol.406 (3), p.393-402
Hauptverfasser: Agoritsas, V, Akchurin, N, Bing, O, Bravar, A, Drevenak, R, Finger, Mic, Finger, Mir, Flaminio, V, DiGirolamo, B, Gorin, A, Kuroda, K, Manuilov, I, Okada, K, Onel, Y, Penzo, A, Rappazzo, G.F, Riazantsev, A, Slunecka, M, Takeutchi, F, Yoshida, T
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Zusammenfassung:Fast and precise readout of scintillating fibres (SciFi) has a great potential for fast tracking and triggering at high-luminosity particle physics experiments. In the framework of the RD-17 experiment at CERN (FAROS) significant milestones in the development of SciFi detectors using position-sensitive photomultipliers have been achieved. Results obtained with a weak cross-talk multi-anode photomultiplier, Philips XP1724, and a parallel readout of the anodes are reported. With 0.5 mm diameter fibres a spatial resolution of about 125 μm and a detection efficiency in excess of 95% have been obtained. The time dispersion of signals from individual photomultiplier channels has been estimated to be about 1 ns. The possibility of digitising the track position in real time by a peak-sensing circuit is studied for the first time
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00104-1