IOP : Performance of scintillating tiles with direct silicon-photomultiplier (SiPM) readout for application to large area detectors

Balla, A.; Buonomo, B.; Lax, I.; Tosi, N.; Cicero, V.; Calcaterra, A.; Foggetta, L.G.; Montanari, A.; Paoloni, A.; Saputi, A.; Cafaro, V.; Ciambrone, P.; Felici, G.; Rovelli, T.; Lanfranchi, G.; Cardelli, F.; Di Giovenale, D.; Di Giulio, C.; Ceccucci, A.; Torromeo, G.; Giordano, V.; Papalino, G.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/P01038

Article
Report number	arXiv:2109.08454
Title	Performance of scintillating tiles with direct silicon-photomultiplier (SiPM) readout for application to large area detectors
Author(s)	Balla, A. (Frascati) ; Buonomo, B. (Frascati) ; Cafaro, V. (INFN, Bologna) ; Calcaterra, A. (Frascati) ; Cardelli, F. (Frascati) ; Ceccucci, A. (CERN) ; Ciambrone, P. (Frascati) ; Cicero, V. (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U., Dept. Astron.) ; Di Giovenale, D. (Frascati) ; Di Giulio, C. (Frascati) ; Felici, G. (Frascati) ; Foggetta, L.G. (Frascati) ; Giordano, V. (INFN, Bologna) ; Lanfranchi, G. (Frascati) ; Lax, I. (INFN, Bologna) ; Montanari, A. (INFN, Bologna) ; Papalino, G. (Frascati) ; Paoloni, A. (Frascati) ; Rovelli, T. (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U., Dept. Astron.) ; Saputi, A. (Frascati) ; Torromeo, G. (INFN, Bologna) ; Tosi, N. (INFN, Bologna)
Publication	2022-01-27
Imprint	2021-09-17
Number of pages	27
Note	28 pages, 24 figures, 6 tables
In:	JINST 17 (2022) P01038
DOI	10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/P01038
Subject category	physics.ins-det ; Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract	The light yield, the time resolution and the efficiency of different types of scintillating tiles with direct Silicon Photomultiplier readout and instrumented with a customised front-end electronics have been measured at the Beam Test Facility of Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati and several test stands. The results obtained with different configurations are presented. A time resolution of the order of 300 ps, a light yield of more than 230 photo-electrons, and an efficiency better than 99.8 $\%$ are obtained with $\sim 225$ cm$^2$ large area tiles. This technology is suitable for a wide range of applications in high-energy physics, in particular for large area muon and timing detectors.
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$Schematic layout of the SHiP muon system. The system is made of four active stations interleaved by passive filters. Each station is made by 100 modules, 32-tiles each, organised in a chess-like structure. Each tile has an area of $\sim 200$~cm$^{2}$.$