The new charged-particle veto detector for the photon spectrometer TAPS

Author

Janssen, S. ; Döring, W. ; Metag, V. ; Novotny, R.

Author_Institution

II. Phys. Inst., Giessen Univ., Germany

Volume

47

Issue

3

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

798

Lastpage

801

Abstract

A new charged-particle veto detector for the photon spectrometer TAPS has been designed, tested and manufactured. The hexagonal plastic scintillators of 5 mm thickness are read-out via green emitting wavelength-shifting fibers and multi-anode photomultipliers. The concept, the performance of prototypes tested with high energy electrons and cosmic muons and the final design are presented. The limitations of fast and compact multi-anode metal case photomultipliers are discussed in detail

Keywords

electron detection; gamma-ray detection; gamma-ray spectrometers; muon detection; photomultipliers; solid scintillation detectors; TAPS; charged-particle veto detector; compact multi-anode metal case photomultipliers; cosmic muons; green emitting wavelength-shifting fibers; hexagonal plastic scintillators; high energy electrons; multi-anode photomultipliers; photon spectrometer; Assembly; Manufacturing; Mesons; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Photomultipliers; Plastics; Radiation detectors; Solid scintillation detectors; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.856519

Filename

856519