Design and characterization of large-size monolithic layers of 3D-segmented plastic scintillator
Abstract
Three-dimensional fine-grained plastic scintillator detectors are extensively used in high-energy physics experiments where particle tracking, identification, calorimetry and sub-nanosecond timing information are required. Moreover, the low cost of plastic scintillator makes, in principle, the scalability to multi-tonne detectors possible. In order to circumvent the difficulties related to the long production time and the challenging assembly of millions of tiny independent scintillating voxels, a new technology consisting of gluing a few thousand 9 × 9 × 9 mm3 plastic scintillator cubes in a single large monolithic layer with machining precision, while ensuring an efficient optical separation, was developed and demonstrated. In this work we demonstrate that such technology can be reliably extended to a monolithic layer of 48 × 48 optically-isolated scintillating cubes, the size required for future ton-scale detectors, fulfilling the requirements of future neutrino detectors and sampling calorimeters.
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BibTeX
@misc{berisha2026design,
title = {{Design and characterization of large-size monolithic layers of 3D-segmented plastic scintillator}},
author = {Jon Berisha and Xingyu Zhao and Andrey Boyarintsev and Sebastien Cap and Diogo Di Calafiori and Maksim Kiktev and Umut Kose and Anzhelika Kuzmina and Natalia Leskina and André Rubbia and Tetiana Sibilieva and Tim Weber and Davide Sgalaberna},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.19684},
eprint = {2609.19684},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19684},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Design and characterization of large-size monolithic layers of 3D-segmented plastic scintillator
AU - Jon Berisha
AU - Xingyu Zhao
AU - Andrey Boyarintsev
AU - Sebastien Cap
AU - Diogo Di Calafiori
AU - Maksim Kiktev
AU - Umut Kose
AU - Anzhelika Kuzmina
AU - Natalia Leskina
AU - André Rubbia
AU - Tetiana Sibilieva
AU - Tim Weber
AU - Davide Sgalaberna
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/17
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.19684
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19684
AB - Three-dimensional fine-grained plastic scintillator detectors are extensively used in high-energy physics experiments where particle tracking, identification, calorimetry and sub-nanosecond timing information are required. Moreover, the low cost of plastic scintillator makes, in principle, the scalability to multi-tonne detectors possible. In order to circumvent the difficulties related to the long production time and the challenging assembly of millions of tiny independent scintillating voxels, a new technology consisting of gluing a few thousand 9 × 9 × 9 mm^3 plastic scintillator cubes in a single large monolithic layer with machining precision, while ensuring an efficient optical separation, was developed and demonstrated. In this work we demonstrate that such technology can be reliably extended to a monolithic layer of 48 × 48 optically-isolated scintillating cubes, the size required for future ton-scale detectors, fulfilling the requirements of future neutrino detectors and sampling calorimeters.
ER -