A scintillating fiber-optic active target (SFT) for studies of high energy photoproduction

Author

Ruchti, R. ; Baumbaugh, B. ; Bishop, J. ; Busenitz, J. ; Cason, N. ; Cunningham, J. ; Gardner, R. ; Kennedy, C. ; Mannel, E. ; Mountain, R.J. ; Puseljic, D. ; Shephard, W. ; Zanabria, M. ; Baumbaugh, A. ; Knickerbocker, K. ; Rogers, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Notre Dame Univ., IN, USA

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1988

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

445

Abstract

A description is given of a high-resolution, gateable scintillating fiber target that has been developed for Fermilab Experiment E687 to study charm and beauty particle production and decay in high-energy photon interactions. The detector consists of a scintillating target of either GS1 cerium glass fibers or polystyrene fibers of 29- mu m cross section, a multistage image intensifier, and an intensified CCD or SIT/VIDICON camera system used in conjunction with a custom-built video data acquisition system.<>

Keywords

nuclear bombardment targets; scintillation counters; Fermilab Experiment E687; GS1 cerium glass fibers; SIT/VIDICON camera; beauty; charm; gateable scintillating fiber target; high energy photoproduction; high-energy photon interactions; high-resolution; intensified CCD; multistage image intensifier; polystyrene fibers; scintillating fiber-optic active target; Cerium; Charge coupled devices; Detectors; Glass; Image intensifiers; Physics; Plastics; Prototypes; Structural beams; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.12761

Filename

12761