Domino Ring Samplers and the new dual readout fiber module

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

2146

Lastpage

2151

Abstract

The dual readout technique consists measuring the electromagnetic fraction of an hadronic shower event by event by comparing the scintillation and Cherenkov light generated in the shower development process. Time characteristics of the signals produced by high energy particles in a fiber prototype module are sampled with a commercial VME board based on the Domino Ring Sampler (DRS) chip. The excellent timing resolution of the DRS-IV based acquisition can be used to recover spatial information on the shower location in a non segmented fiber module. The μs wide buffer opens the possibility of measuring the late neutron component of the hadronic shower.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray showers; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; radiation detection; solid scintillation detectors; Cherenkov light; DRS-IV based acquisition; VME board; domino ring sampler chip; domino ring samplers; dual readout fiber module; fiber prototype module; hadronic shower electromagnetic fraction measurement; hadronic shower late neutron component; high energy particles; nonsegmented fiber module; scintillation light; shower development process; shower location; signal time characteristics; spatial information; timing resolution; Mesons; Monitoring; Neutrons; Optical fiber communication; Poles and towers; DRS; calorimetry; dual readout; neutron fraction; samplers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154436

Filename

6154436