Time resolution analysis of detectors based on plastic scintillators coupled to silicon photomultipliers

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the efficiency and timing performance of plastic scintillator detectors coupled with silicon photomultipliers using cosmic rays, providing insights for their application in high-energy physics trigger systems.

Contribution

It presents a detailed analysis of detector performance, highlighting high efficiency and good timing resolution, relevant for trigger subsystems in heavy-ion collider experiments.

Findings

High detection efficiency achieved

Excellent timing resolution demonstrated

Suitable for use in collider trigger systems

Abstract

The performance of several trigger counters based on plastic scintillators with silicon photomultiplier readout is investigated with cosmic rays. Efficiency and time resolution are measured using digital waveform analysis. The obtained results are relevant for trigger subsystems of Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) and Baryonic Matter at the Nuclotron (BM@N) at the NICA heavy-ion collider. The results show very high efficiency and good timing performance of the counters.