TY - JOUR
T1 - Muon tracking system with Silicon Photomultipliers
AU - Arneodo, F.
AU - Benabderrahmane, M. L.
AU - Dahal, S.
AU - Di Giovanni, A.
AU - Pazos Clemens, L.
AU - Candela, A.
AU - D'Incecco, M.
AU - Sablone, D.
AU - Franchi, G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by New York University Abu Dhabi . The authors would like to thank B. Curzadd and the mechanical workshop of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/8/22
Y1 - 2015/8/22
N2 - We report the characterisation and performance of a low cost muon tracking system consisting of plastic scintillator bars and Silicon Photomultipliers equipped with a customised front-end electronics based on a fast preamplifier network. This system can be used as a detector test bench for astroparticle physics and for educational and outreach purposes. We investigated the device behaviour in self-trigger and coincidence mode, without using LED and pulse generators, showing that with a relatively simple set up a complete characterisation work can be carried out. A high definition oscilloscope, which can easily be found in many university physics or engineering departments, has been used for triggering and data acquisition. Its capabilities have been exploited to discriminate real particles from the background.
AB - We report the characterisation and performance of a low cost muon tracking system consisting of plastic scintillator bars and Silicon Photomultipliers equipped with a customised front-end electronics based on a fast preamplifier network. This system can be used as a detector test bench for astroparticle physics and for educational and outreach purposes. We investigated the device behaviour in self-trigger and coincidence mode, without using LED and pulse generators, showing that with a relatively simple set up a complete characterisation work can be carried out. A high definition oscilloscope, which can easily be found in many university physics or engineering departments, has been used for triggering and data acquisition. Its capabilities have been exploited to discriminate real particles from the background.
KW - Light detector
KW - Muon telescope
KW - Readout
KW - Silicon Photomultipliers
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2015.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2015.08.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939790405
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 799
SP - 166
EP - 171
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
ER -