A study of time over threshold (TOT) technique for plastic scintillator counter

WU Jin-Jie; HENG Yue-Kun; SUN Zhi-Jia; WU Chong; ZHAO Yu-Da; YANG Gui-An; JIANG Chun-Hua

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Chinese Physics C> 2008, Vol. 32> Issue(3) : 186-190 DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/32/3/005

A study of time over threshold (TOT) technique for plastic scintillator counter

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A new charge measurement method, time over threshold (TOT), has been used in some gas detectors lately. Here TOT is studied for TOF system, made of plastic scintillator counter, which can simplify the electronics of the system. The signal characteristics are measured and analyzed with a high quality oscilloscope, including noise, pedestal, signal amplitude, total charge, rise time and the correlation between them. The TOT and charge are related and can be fitted by some empirical formula. The charge measurement resolution by TOT is given and this will help the design of TOF electronics.

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WU Jin-Jie, HENG Yue-Kun, SUN Zhi-Jia, WU Chong, ZHAO Yu-Da, YANG Gui-An and JIANG Chun-Hua. A study of time over threshold (TOT) technique for plastic scintillator counter[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2008, 32(3): 186-190. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/32/3/005

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A study of time over threshold (TOT) technique for plastic scintillator counter

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A new charge measurement method, time over threshold (TOT), has been used in some gas detectors lately. Here TOT is studied for TOF system, made of plastic scintillator counter, which can simplify the electronics of the system. The signal characteristics are measured and analyzed with a high quality oscilloscope, including noise, pedestal, signal amplitude, total charge, rise time and the correlation between them. The TOT and charge are related and can be fitted by some empirical formula. The charge measurement resolution by TOT is given and this will help the design of TOF electronics.

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