Study of Solid State Photon Detectors Read Out of Scintillator Tiles

TL;DR

This paper investigates the efficiency and uniformity of scintillator tile assemblies coupled with solid state photon detectors, suggesting potential use in ILC hadron calorimeters without wavelength shifting fibers.

Contribution

It provides preliminary experimental results on scintillator tile and solid state detector configurations, exploring alternatives to traditional wavelength shifting fiber readouts.

Findings

2 mm scintillator tiles without wavelength shifting fibers are feasible for ILC calorimeters

Preliminary data shows promising efficiency and uniformity

Potential simplification of calorimeter design

Abstract

We present preliminary results on efficiency and light collection uniformity read out performances of different assemblies of scintillator tiles, coupled with solid state photon detectors of different make. Our test beam data suggest that the use of 2 mm scintillator tiles without wavelength shifting fibers may be possible in an ILC hadron calorimeter.