Development of a Fast Timing Counter with a Monolithic MPPC Array

作者：Nishizawa T^*; Fujii Y; Kanda H; Kaneta M; Kasai Y; Kusaka J; Maeda K; Nagao S; Nakamura S N; Tsukada K; Yamamoto F

来源：IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2014, 61(3): 1278-1283.

DOI：10.1109/TNS.2014.2321657

• Analog circuits
• multipixel photon counters (MPPCs)
• scintillation counters
• silicon photomultipliers (SiPM)
• time resolution

We developed a timing counter with a monolithic array of multi-pixel photon counters (MPPCs) coupled to a mm plastic scintillator. A signal of the MPPC was processed and its fast components were amplified by a developed readout circuit to improve the timing. The performances of the counter were evaluated by electrons with energies of 855 MeV. A set of the MPPC based scintillation counter and a PMT based reference counter achieved the TOF resolution less than 80 ps (sigma). The gain was almost constant up to the count rate of 170 kHz.

• 出版日期2014-6