2006/10/31 by Paolo Lombardi, P. Lombardi, Gioacchino Ranucci +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.01.173
published as Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A574:65-82,2007 · 29 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication on Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A
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Large spherical scintillation detectors are playing an increasingly important role in experimental neutrino physics studies. From the instrumental point of view the primary signal response of these set-ups is constituted by the time and amplitude of the anode pulses delivered by each individual phototube following a particle interaction in the scintillator. In this work, under some approximate assumptions, we derive a number of analytical formulas able to give a fairly accurate description of the most important timing features of these detectors, intended to complement the more complete Monte Carlo studies normally used for a full modelling approach. The paper is completed with a mathematical description of the event position distributions which can be inferred, through some inference algorithm, starting from the primary time measures of the photomultiplier tubes.