Neutrino tracking calorimetry with plastic scintillator bars

The technique of plastic scintillator bars coupled to wavelength shifting fibers is proposed for neutrino tracking calorimeters, in the context of very large, massive detectors for experiments on the neutrino factory beam. A prototype has been built with 180 scintillator bars interleaved with an equ...

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Published inNuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 472; no. 3; pp. 460 - 463
Main Authors Giannini, Gianrossano, Santin, Giovanni, Spinetti, Mario, Votano, Lucia, Hoepfner, Kerstin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 21.10.2001
Subjects
Calorimeters
Neutrino oscillations
Scintillation detectors
29.40.Nc
Scintillation detectors
Neutrino oscillations
Calorimeters
29.40.Vj
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Summary:The technique of plastic scintillator bars coupled to wavelength shifting fibers is proposed for neutrino tracking calorimeters, in the context of very large, massive detectors for experiments on the neutrino factory beam. A prototype has been built with 180 scintillator bars interleaved with an equal number of iron bars. The light from the fibers is collected by multi-anode PMTs and converted with Amplitude–Time–Pattern self-triggering digitizing electronics. The prototype has been tested with electron and pion beams at CERN.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/S0168-9002(01)01292-X