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Time Resolution and Linearity Measurements for a Scintillating Fiber Detector Instrumented with VLPC's

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The time resolution for a charged particle detection is reported for a typical scintillating fiber detector instrumented with Rockwell HISTE-IV Visible Light Photon Counters. The resolution measurements are shown to agree with a simple Monte Carlo model, and the model is used to make recomendations for improved performance. In addition, the gain linearity of a sample of VLPC devices was measured. The gain is shown to be linear for incident light intensities which produce up to approximately 600 photoelectrons per event.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9701016,
  title  = {Time Resolution and Linearity Measurements for a Scintillating Fiber Detector Instrumented with VLPC's},
  author = {Alan Bross and Ana Lucia Chaves and Jesse Costa and Marvin Johnson and Lourival Moreira and Joey Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9701016},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, 14 figures; Submitted to Nucl. Instr & Meth. in Phys. Res. A; Please direct correspondence to [email protected]