A high-resolution scintillating fiber tracker with silicon photomultiplier array readout

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 622, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 542-554

  Beischer, B ^a   Gast, H ^a,c   Greim, R ^a   Karpinski, W ^a   Kirn, T ^a   Nakada, T ^b   Roper Yearwood, G ^a   Schael, S ^a   Wlochal, M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

MPPC; Scintillating fiber; Silicon photomultiplier; SiPM; Tracker

Indexed keywords

MPPC; SCINTILLATING FIBER; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SIPM; TRACKER;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 77957899118     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.059     Document Type: Article

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