Design optimization of plastic scintillators with wavelength-shifting fibers and silicon photomultiplier readouts in the top veto tracker of the JUNO-TAO experiment

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Design optimization of plastic scintillators with wavelength-shifting fibers and silicon photomultiplier readouts in the top veto tracker of the JUNO-TAO experiment

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- Design optimization of plastic scintillators with wavelength-shifting fibers and silicon photomultiplier readouts in the top veto tracker of the JUNO-TAO experiment
- Nuclear Science and Techniques Vol. 34, Issue 7, Article number: 99(2023)
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  1.School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  2.Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  4.Sino‑French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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  † heyuanq@mail.sysu.edu.cn
  ‡ wangzhm@ihep.ac.cn
  § wangw223@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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Guang Luo, Y.K. Hor, Pei-Zhi Lu, et al. Design optimization of plastic scintillators with wavelength-shifting fibers and silicon photomultiplier readouts in the top veto tracker of the JUNO-TAO experiment. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 34(7):99(2023)
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Guang Luo, Y.K. Hor, Pei-Zhi Lu, et al. Design optimization of plastic scintillators with wavelength-shifting fibers and silicon photomultiplier readouts in the top veto tracker of the JUNO-TAO experiment. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 34(7):99(2023) DOI： 10.1007/s41365-023-01263-7.

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Plastic scintillators (PSs) embedded with wavelength-shifting fibers are widely used in high-energy particle physics, such as in muon taggers, as well as in medical physics and other applications. In this study, a simulation package was built to evaluate the effects of the diameter and layout of optical fibers on the light yield with different configurations. The optimal optical configuration was designed based on simulations and validated using two PS prototypes under certain experimental conditions. A top veto tracker (TVT) for the JUNO-TAO experiment, comprising four layers of 160 strips of PS, was designed and evaluated. The threshold was evaluated when the muon tagging efficiency of a PS strip was >99%. The efficiency of three-layer out of four-layer of TVT is >99%, even with a tagging efficiency of a single strip as low as 97%, using a threshold of 10 photoelectrons and assuming a 40% silicon PM photon detection efficiency.

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Plastic scintillatorWLS fiberLight yieldOptical transmission performanceMuon tagging efficiencyJUNO-TAO

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