Scintillating fibers and waveguides for tracking applications

Author

Abbot, B. ; Adams, D. ; Atac, M. ; Anway, C. ; Baumbaugh, A. ; Baumbaugh, B. ; Berge, P. ; Binkley, M. ; Bishop, J. ; Biswas, N. ; Bross, A.D. ; Buchanan, C. ; Cason, N. ; Chaney, R. ; Chrisman, D. ; Clark, A. ; Cline, D. ; Cohn, H. ; Corcoran, M. ; Davie

Author_Institution

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

38

Issue

2

fYear

1991

fDate

4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

445

Abstract

A test facility to study the light-transmission properties of scintillating fiber waveguides for tracking applications in high-energy physics is being developed. A light-tight box 2 m in length has been built, and data acquisition hardware and software is in place for testing various aspects of scintillating fibers and waveguides. Scintillating fibers have been excited with radioactive sources, ultraviolet light sources, and light-emitting diodes. Various photodetectors such as photomultiplier tubes, photodiodes, charge-coupled devices and solid-state photomultipliers have been utilized to detect the transmitted light. Studies of attenuation length and transmission through splices are presented

Keywords

light transmission; optical fibres; scintillation counters; 2 m; charge-coupled devices; data acquisition hardware; light-emitting diodes; light-tight box; light-transmission properties; photodiodes; photomultiplier tubes; scintillating fiber waveguides; software; solid-state photomultipliers; test facility; ultraviolet light sources; Application software; Data acquisition; Hardware; Light sources; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber testing; Photomultipliers; Physics; Software testing; Test facilities;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.289337

Filename

289337