New fiber read-out design for the large area scintillator detectors: providing good amplitude and time resolutions

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel fiber read-out design for large-area scintillator detectors that achieves good amplitude and time resolutions by using clear fibers to ensure uniform response without the high cost of small tile segmentation.

Contribution

The paper proposes a fiber-based read-out method that maintains uniformity and high resolution in large scintillator detectors, reducing costs compared to traditional small-tile segmentation.

Findings

Design and analytic estimations of light collection efficiency are presented.

Estimations of time-spread and pulse wave form dependence on scintillator size are provided.

The method offers a promising alternative for large-area detectors with good timing performance.

Abstract

Most of the time-of-flight systems as well as the fast interaction trigger detectors have large surfaces and the principal requirements for the above mentioned detectors is a good time resolution of the order 100-200ps. The easiest solution here is to split the large surface into the small tiles with a read-out directly attached to the photo-sensor. This solution is expensive because the number of the channels grows proportional to the surface. Although if the coverage of the whole surface by the sensors is not sufficient, one can obtain non uniform response, which is not acceptable if uniformity is required. Our suggestion is based on the usage of clear fibres mounted perpendicular on the surface of the scintillator as a matrix providing uniform surface reduction and keeping most of the benefices of the small tiles with the photo-sensors. In this work the design and some analytic estimations of the light collection efficiency for direct and reflected photons will be presented. Also some simple estimations are presented for the time-spread and for the light pulse wave form dependent on the lateral sizes and the thickness of the scintillator.