Monte-Carlo studies of the performance of scintillator detectors for time-of-flight measurements
- 1. Columbia Univ., Irvington-on-Hudson, NY (United States). Nevis Labs.
- 2. Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 (Japan)
Description
In this paper we report on a Monte-Carlo program, SToF, developed to evaluate the performance of scintillator-based Time-of-Flight (TOF) detectors. This program has been used in the design of the TOF system for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. The program was used to evaluate the intrinsic time-of-flight resolution of various scintillator and light-guide geometries, and the results of these simulations are presented here. The simulation results agree extremely well with measured pulse-height and time distributions with one adjustable parameter. These results, thus, explain also the reduced quantities, such as the position dependence of the time resolution, etc, implying that SToF will be generally useful for estimating the performance of TOF detectors. ((orig.))
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 354
- Journal Issue
- 2-3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 270-279.
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 26041834
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFORMANCE; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RESOLUTION; SIMULATION; TIMING PROPERTIES