Further progress in building high-granular large-scale systems based on Scintillation Tiles with MRS APD light readout (START) became possible thanks to the creation of an improved version of MRS APD. The cost of the system may now be significantly reduced by using inexpensive extruded scintillator. More than 160 START samples were assembled based on this design modification and proved to possess 100% MIP detection efficiency and the intrinsic noise rate of less than 0.08 Hz. Long-term stability of START characteristics was confirmed after 3.5 months of operation.
@article{arxiv.physics/0605208,
title = {START as the detector of choice for large-scale muon triggering systems},
author = {A. Akindinov and G. Bondarenko and V. Golovin and E. Grigoriev and Yu. Grishuk and D. Mal'kevich and A. Martemiyanov and A. Nedosekin and M. Ryabinin and V. Sheinkman and A. Smirnitskiy and K. Voloshin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0605208},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, reported at the 4th International Conference on New Developments in Photodetection, Beaune, France, June 19-24, 2005