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

Keith Rielage, Katsushi Arisaka, Muzaffer Atac, W. Robert Binns, James H. Buckley, Michael L. Cherry, Mark J. Christl, David Cline, Paul Dowkontt, John W. Epstein, Gerald J. Fishman, T. Gregory Guzik, Paul L. Hink, Martin H. Israel, S. Cheenu Kappadath

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Abstract

A scintillating fiber detector (FiberGLAST) 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 components of this detector are the scintillating fibers and their associated photodetectors. Here we present current status of development and test results of both of these. The Hamamatsu R5900-00-M64 multianode (64 anodes) 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 tests. A prototype fiber/MAPMT system has been tested at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) at Louisiana State University with a photon beam and preliminary results are presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)156-165
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume3768
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1999 Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics - Denver, CO, USA
Duration: Jul 19 1999Jul 23 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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