Test of scintillating bars coupled to Silicon Photomultipliers for a charged particle tracking device

TL;DR

This paper reports laboratory tests of scintillator bars coupled with silicon photomultipliers, demonstrating a tracking system capable of achieving better than 2 mm spatial resolution for charged particle detection.

Contribution

It introduces a novel scintillator bar and silicon photomultiplier-based tracking system designed for precise charge identification of low energy particles.

Findings

Achieved spatial resolution better than 2 mm

First demonstration of this scintillator-SiPM tracking approach

Suitable for placement inside magnetized volumes

Abstract

The results obtained in laboratory tests, using scintillator bars read by silicon photomultipliers are reported. The present approach is the first step for designing a precision tracking system to be placed inside a free magnetized volume for the charge identification of low energy crossing particles. The devised system is demonstrated able to provide a spatial resolution better than 2 mm.