Digital timing algorithms applied to fast scintillators response

The future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will house the calorimeter and spectrometer CALIFA, whose design, construction and testing are currently being carried out by the R3B collaboration. The mentioned calorimeter is an array of scintillation detectors displayed in a barrel configuration, which covers the total solid angle. These new fast scintillation materials have been developed in last few years and their main interest lies on their versatility, which allows their use both for applications and fundamental research. In the same way, fast digitizers let the collection of signals at increasingly higher sampling frequencies. Our research takes advantage of these fair properties and is therefore focused on the analysis of digitized pulses for several aims: understanding the behaviour of radiation inside new fast scintillators and the development or improvement of digital algorithms which yield accurate resolution for fast timing and may be also applied to particle identification.