- The detector is a stack of plastic scintillators (EJ-200, Eljen Technology), readout with silicon photomultipliers (MicroFC-60035-SMT, SensL).
Figure: Stack of three plastic scintillators, wrapped with tyvek paper (inner layer) and black paper (outer layer)
Figure: Silicon photomultiplier at a corner of a scintillator plate
- The readout is done with a time-to-digital converter board (QuarkNet)
Figure: Data acquisition board
- Data is collected with a Raspberry PI2, single board computer.
Figure: Mini computer for data collection