Speaker
Mr
Gamal Ahmed
(Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria., Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Physics Department, 11884, Cairo, Egypt.)
Description
A novel and still rapidly evolving device, Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) is opening a new possibility of particle detection in the field of nuclear/particle physics, material science and medicine. We have been working on an evaluation of basic characteristics of Hamamatsu MPPCs, Photonique SSPMs, Zecotek MAPDs, as well as an application for a scintillating fiber detector and Cherenkov detector [1-2]. A beam profile monitor composed by two layers of 16 1x1 mm2 scintillating fibers in x-y configuration was successfully operated at the FOPI at GSI, Darmstadt in search for a kaonic nuclear state [3]. One of our recent focuses is an application for a Cherenkov detector as cheap, compact timing counter in a magnetic field.
We would like to report on a characteristics study of SiPMs in terms of timing performance and a result of the test beam time of a prototype detector which was performed at the Beam Test Facility at LNF/INFN in Frascati.
References:
[1] G.S.M. Ahmed, J. Marton, K. Suzuki, and P. Bühler, Journal of instrumentation, September 9, 2009.
[2] K. Suzuki, P. Bühler, S. Fossati, J. Marton, M. Schafhauser, J. Zmeskal, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 610 (2009) 75.
[3] K. Suzuki et al., Nucl. Phys. A 827 (2009) 312c
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This work is partly supported by Hadronphysics2 (project 227431), and the Ministry of higher education, Egypt government.
Author
Mr
Gamal Ahmed
(Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria., Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Physics Department, 11884, Cairo, Egypt.)
Co-authors
Dr
Johann Marton
(Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria.)
Dr
Ken Suzuki
(Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria.)
Dr
Paul Bühler
(Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria.)
