A high-resolution tracking hodoscope based on capillary layers filled with liquid scintillator

Bay A;Benussi L;Bruski N;Buontempo S;Currat C;D'Ambrosio N;Ekimov AV;Ereditato A;Fabre JP;FANTI, VIVIANA;Frekers D;Frenkel A;Golovkin SV;Govorun VN;Harrison K;Koppenburg P;Kozarenko EN;Kreslo IE;Liberti B;Martellotti G;Medvedkov AM;Mondardini MR;Penso G;Siegmund WP;Vasil'chenko VG;Vilain P;Wilquet G;Winter K;Wortche HJ

2001-01-01

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Abstract

Results are given on tests of a high-resolution tracking hodoscope based on layers of 26-mum-bore glass capillaries filled with organic liquid scintillator (1-methylnaphthalene doped with R39). The detector prototype consisted of three 2-mm-thick parallel layers, with surface areas of 3.1 x 21 cm(2). The layers had a centre-to-centre spacing of 6 mm, and were read by an optoelectronic chain comprising two electrostatically focused image intensifiers and an Electron-Bombarded Charge-Coupled Device (EBCCD). Tracks of cosmic-ray particles were recorded and analysed. The observed hit density was 6.6 hits/mm for particles crossing the layers perpendicularly, at a distance of 1 cm from the capillaries' readout end, and 4.2 hits/mm for particles at a distance of 20 cm, A track segment reconstructed in a single layer had an rms residual of 20 mum, and allowed determination of the track position in a neighbouring layer with a precision of similar to 170 mum. This latter value corresponded to an rms angular resolution per layer of about 30 mrad, A comparison is made between capillary layers and silicon microstrip planes. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.