Electric charge estimation using a SensL SiPM

Abstract

The Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are commonly used in the construction of radiation detectors such as those used in high energy experiments and its applications where an excellent time resolution is required for triggering. In most of this cases, the trigger systems electric charge information is discarded due to limitations in data acquisition. In this work we propose a method, using a simple radiation detector based on an organic plastic scintillator 2×2×0.3 cm3 size, to estimate the electric charge obtained from the acquisition of the fast output signal of a SensL SiPM model C-60035-4P-EVB. Our results suggest a linear relation between the reconstructed electric charge from the fast output of the SiPM used with respect to the one reconstructed with its standard signal output. Using our electric charge reconstruction method, we compared the sensitivity of two plastic scintillators, BC404 and BC422Q, under the presence of 90Sr, 137Cs, 60Co and 22Na radiation sources.