Development of a scintillating fiber detector for experiment E835 at FNAL

Author

Bettoni, D. ; Bonsi, D. ; Calabrese, R. ; Camanzi, B. ; Luppi, E. ; Mussa, R. ; Onorato, M. ; Pastrone, N.

Author_Institution

Ferrara Univ., Italy

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

292

Abstract

A tracking detector made of scintillating fibers is being developed at FNAL, for the experiment E835. The tracker will be used for the measurement of the polar angle θ, i.e. of the coordinate along the beam. The small amount of light from the fibers will be detected by solid state devices (Visible Light Photon Counters) with very high quantum efficiency. This paper reports the performance of a fiber tracker prototype, as measured at FNAL. We present results on light yield/mip, attenuation and homogeneity of response. We measured an average number of 14 photoelectrons per mip and a very low noise level

Keywords

detector circuits; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; solid scintillation detectors; solid-state nuclear track detectors; FNAL; Visible Light Photon Counters; attenuation; beam coordinate; experiment E835; fiber tracker prototype; light yield/mip; noise level; photoelectrons; polar angle; quantum efficiency; response homogeneity; scintillating fiber detector; solid state devices; tracking detector; Coordinate measuring machines; Electrons; Noise level; Noise measurement; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber testing; Prototypes; Radiation detectors; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474410

Filename

474410