Brightness and uniformity measurements of plastic scintillator tiles at the CERN H2 test beam


Chatrchyan S., Sirunyan A. M., Tumasyan A., Litomin A., Mossolov V., Shumeiko N., ...More

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, vol.13, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Abstract

We study the light output, light collection efficiency and signal timing of a variety of organic scintillators that are being considered for the upgrade of the hadronic calorimeter of the CMS detector. The experimental data are collected at the H2 test-beam area at CERN, using a 150 GeV muon beam. In particular, we investigate the usage of over-doped and green-emitting plastic scintillators, two solutions that have not been extensively considered. We present a study of the energy distribution in plastic-scintillator tiles, the hit efficiency as a function of the hit position, and a study of the signal timing for blue and green scintillators.