High-resolution tracking using large capillary bundles filled with liquid scintillator
Annis, P.; Bay, A.; Benussi, L.; Bruski, N.; Buontempo, S.; Currat, C.; D'Ambrosio, N.; Dantzig, R. van; Dupraz, J.; Ereditato, A.; Fabre, J.P.; Fanti, V.; Feyt, J.; Frekers, D.; Frenkel, A.; Galeazzi, F.; Garufi, F.; Goldberg, J.; Golovkin, S.V.; Gorin, A.M.; Gregoire, G.; Harrison, K.; Hoepfner, K.; Holtz, K.; Konijn, J.; Kozarenko, E.N.; Kreslo, I.E.; Kushnirenko, A.E.; Liberti, B.; Martellotti, G.; Medvedkov, A.M.; Michel, L.; Migliozzi, P.; Mommaert, C.; Mondardini, M.R.; Panman, J.; Penso, G.; Petukhov, Y.P.; Rondeshagen, D.; Siegmund, W.P.; Tyukov, V.; Beek, G. van; Vasil'chenko, V.G.; Vilain, P.; Visschers, J.L.; Wilquet, G.; Winter, K.; Wolff, T.; Woertche, H.J.; Wong, H.; Zimyn, K.V., E-mail: gianni.penso@roma1.infn.it2000
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[en] We have developed large high-resolution tracking detectors based on glass capillaries filled with organic liquid scintillator of high refractive index. These liquid-core scintillating optical fibres act simultaneously as detectors of charged particles and as image guides. Track images projected onto the readout end of a capillary bundle are visualized by an optoelectronic chain consisting of a set of image-intensifier tubes followed by a photosensitive CCD or by an EBCCD camera. Two prototype detectors, each composed of ∼106 capillaries with 20-25 μm diameter and 0.9-1.8 m length, have been tested, and a spatial resolution of the order of 20-40 μm has been attained. A high scintillation efficiency and a large light-attenuation length, in excess of 3 m, was achieved through special purification of the liquid scintillator. Along the tracks of minimum-ionizing particles, the hit densities obtained were ∼8 hits/mm at the readout window, and ∼3 hits/mm at ∼1 m away. The level of radiation resistance of the prototype detectors is at least an order of magnitude higher than that of other tracking devices of comparable performance
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S0168900299012954; Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: Ukraine
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment; ISSN 0168-9002; ; CODEN NIMAER; v. 449(1-2); p. 60-80
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