Development and testing of a fiber/multianode photomultiplier system for use on FiberGLAST

Keith R. Rielage; Katsushi Arisaka; Muzaffer Atac; W. Robert Binns; James H. Buckley; Michael L. Cherry; Mark J. Christl; David B. Cline; Paul F. Dowkontt; John W. Epstein; Gerald J. Fishman; T. Gregory Guzik; Paul L. Hink; Martin H. Israel; S. Cheenu Kappadath; Gerald Karr; Richard Marc Kippen; Daniel Leopold; Mark L. McConnell; John R. Macri; Robert S. Mallozzi; William S. Paciesas; Thomas A. Parnell; Geoffrey N. Pendleton; Surasak Phengchamnan; Yuriy Pischalnikov; Georgia A. Richardson; James M. Ryan; John Gregory Stacy; Tumay O. Tumer; Gerald J. Visser; Donald B. Wallace; Robert B. Wilson

doi:10.1117/12.366579

19 October 1999 Development and testing of a fiber/multianode photomultiplier system for use on FiberGLAST

Keith R. Rielage, Katsushi Arisaka, Muzaffer Atac, W. Robert Binns, James H. Buckley, Michael L. Cherry, Mark J. Christl, David B. Cline, Paul F. Dowkontt, John W. Epstein, Gerald J. Fishman, T. Gregory Guzik, Paul L. Hink, Martin H. Israel, S. Cheenu Kappadath, Gerald Karr, Richard Marc Kippen, Daniel Leopold, Mark L. McConnell, John R. Macri, Robert S. Mallozzi, William S. Paciesas, Thomas A. Parnell, Geoffrey N. Pendleton, Surasak Phengchamnan, Yuriy Pischalnikov, Georgia A. Richardson, James M. Ryan, John Gregory Stacy, Tumay O. Tumer, Gerald J. Visser, Donald B. Wallace, Robert B. Wilson

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Proceedings Volume 3768, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366579
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

A scintillating fiber detector is currently being studied for the NASA Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission. This detector utilizes modules composed of a thin converter sheet followed by an x, y plane of scintillating fibers to examine the shower of particles created by high energy gamma-rays interacting in the converter material. The detector is composed of a tracker with 90 such modular planes and a calorimeter with 36 planes. The two major component of this detector are the scintillating fibers and their associated photodetectors. Here we present current status of development and test result of both of these. The Hamamatsu R5900-00-M64 multianode photomultiplier tube (MAPMT) is the baseline readout device. A characterization of this device has been performed including noise, cross- talk, gain variation, vibration, and thermal/vacuum test. A prototype fiber/MAPMT system has been tested at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices at Louisiana State University with a photon beam and preliminary results are presented.

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Keith R. Rielage, Katsushi Arisaka, Muzaffer Atac, W. Robert Binns, James H. Buckley, Michael L. Cherry, Mark J. Christl, David B. Cline, Paul F. Dowkontt, John W. Epstein, Gerald J. Fishman, T. Gregory Guzik, Paul L. Hink, Martin H. Israel, S. Cheenu Kappadath, Gerald Karr, Richard Marc Kippen, Daniel Leopold, Mark L. McConnell, John R. Macri, Robert S. Mallozzi, William S. Paciesas, Thomas A. Parnell, Geoffrey N. Pendleton, Surasak Phengchamnan, Yuriy Pischalnikov, Georgia A. Richardson, James M. Ryan, John Gregory Stacy, Tumay O. Tumer, Gerald J. Visser, Donald B. Wallace, and Robert B. Wilson "Development and testing of a fiber/multianode photomultiplier system for use on FiberGLAST", Proc. SPIE 3768, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics, (19 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366579

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