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The use of silicon photomultipliers for reading optical information from scintillators was investigated. Measurements were taken with scintillating fibers, tiles, and high-Z scintillators. In experiments with silicon photomultipliers, it was shown that relativistic particles were detected in scintillating fibers with an efficiency of 97–98% and that there were about nine photoelectrons. When information was read out of scintillator tiles via wavelength shifting fibers, the number of photoelectrons was ∼15. The energy resolution of detectors based on LSO crystals was ∼25% for γ rays with energies of 500–600 keV.
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Original Russian Text © T.S. Brantova, V.A. Kantserov, F.F. Kayumov, 2009, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2009, No. 4, pp. 77–80.
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Brantova, T.S., Kantserov, V.A. & Kayumov, F.F. Possibilities of using silicon photomultipliers in the scintillation technique. Instrum Exp Tech 52, 519–522 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441209040083
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