The design of the totally active scintillator detector

Abstract

In the project of Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA), the Institute of Nuclear Research designed and tested the Totally Active Scintillator Detector (TASD). This paper reports the results of design of TASD prototype and outlines requirements for a test beam at CERN to test these, tentatively planned on the H8 beamline in the North Area, which is equipped with a large aperture magnet. TASD consists of 50 modules of plastic scintillators. Each module is instrumented with one X and one Y plane, with 90 scintillator bars per plane. The bar width, height and length are 1.0 cm, 0.7 cm and 90 cm respectively. The distance between modules can be varied from 0 to 2.5 cm. Other components such as active detectors or passive sheets of material can be inserted in these 2.5 cm gaps if required. The full detector depth can therefore be varied from 75 cm to 200 cm and in its compact form, it is 1 m3 in volume. The paper presents measurement results for the TASD elements that included in the prototype elements (measurement of crosscurrents, the light yield of scintillators, and the characteristics of photodiodes).