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The Position Resolution of a Charged Particle Hodoscope Consisting of Triangular Scintillator Counters

  • Edmond Craig Dukes
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Abstract

Hodoscopes consisting of triangular counters with embedded wavelength shifting fibers are becoming more popular as they are relatively inexpensive, are easily fabricated, need no cooling systems, employ low-cost photodetectors, require only modest voltages, and perhaps most importantly, have good position resolution. Through interpolation of the light yields between adjacent counters, position resolutions that are typically an order of magnitude better than the counter separation can be obtained. Here, after a brief explanation of how the interpolation is done to improve the position resolution, we derive an approximate expressions for the uncertainty in the interpolated x and y positions as a function of the impact position of the charged particle.

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@misc{dukes2026position,
  title = {{The Position Resolution of a Charged Particle Hodoscope Consisting of Triangular Scintillator Counters}},
  author = {Edmond Craig Dukes},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.37955},
  eprint = {2610.37955},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37955},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - The Position Resolution of a Charged Particle Hodoscope Consisting of Triangular Scintillator Counters
AU  - Edmond Craig Dukes
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/27
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.37955
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37955
AB  - Hodoscopes consisting of triangular counters with embedded wavelength shifting fibers are becoming more popular as they are relatively inexpensive, are easily fabricated, need no cooling systems, employ low-cost photodetectors, require only modest voltages, and perhaps most importantly, have good position resolution. Through interpolation of the light yields between adjacent counters, position resolutions that are typically an order of magnitude better than the counter separation can be obtained. Here, after a brief explanation of how the interpolation is done to improve the position resolution, we derive an approximate expressions for the uncertainty in the interpolated x and y positions as a function of the impact position of the charged particle.
ER  -