Use of plastic optical fibers for charged particle tracking in high energy physics
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
A large tracking detector consisting of scintillating plastic optical fibers has been chosen by the DO collaboration as a part of a planned upgrade at the Fermilab Tevatron. The tracker will utilize a state of the art photodetector known as the Visible Light Photon Counter. The benefits of fiber tracking in high energy physics will be presented along with recent progress in several key areas, including: optimization of scintillating dyes and light yields, fiber construction, fiber ribbon manufacture and placement, optical transmission and photodetection. The current status of the D0 development effort will be outlined, including results from the characterization of 5,000 channels of VLPC. Finally, results from simulations of expected detector performance will be shown and discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 79842
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940411-; ISBN 1-55899-248-0; TRN: 95:016618
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), San Francisco, CA (United States), 4-8 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Scintillator and phosphor materials. Materials Research Society symposium proceedings: Volume 348; Weber, M.J. [ed.] [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)]; Lecoq, P. [ed.] [Centre European pour la Recherche Nucleaire, Geneva (Switzerland)]; Ruchti, R.C. [ed.] [Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)]; Woody, C. [ed.] [Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)]; Yen, W.M. [ed.] [Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)]; Zhu, R.Y. [ed.] [California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA (United States)]; PB: 580 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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