One large area trigger detector for cosmic ray telescope system

Abstract

The large area trigger detector is a key instrument in cosmic ray telescope system. One large area detector, sensitive size 1.3 * 2 m2, is proposed in this paper based on plastic scintillator tiles and wavelength shift optical fibers. Thanks to the wavelength shift fibers coupling to the scintillator tiles, only one photomultiplier tube is used to output the signals for whole large area detector. So this detector is simple and economy. The signal uniformity of this detector is better than 96% over the whole surface including the edges or corners. The detection efficiency of the muon is higher than 95%, and the time resolution is better than 10 ns over the entire detector. These performances are sufficient for the trigger detector in most cosmic ray telescope system.