Comparison of readout systems for high-rate silicon photomultiplier applications
M. L. Wong, M. Kołodziej, K. Briggl, R. Hetzel, G. Korcyl, R. Lalik, A. Malige, A. Magiera, G. Ostrzołek, K. Rusiecka, A. Stahl, V. Urbanevych, M. Wiebusch, A. Wrońska
abstract
Recent years have shown an increased use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) in experimentsas they are of reasonable cost, have relatively low power consumption and are easily available in avariety of form factors allowing for a large number of readout channels. At the same time, experimentsare generating data at increasingly high rates requiring the use of more efficient readout systems. Inthis work, the dead time, efficiency, dynamic range, coincidence time resolution and energy resolutionof five different readout systems at various stages of maturity are evaluated to determine the bestsystem for acquiring data from a detector in a high rate experiment. Additional functionalities ofthe systems are also discussed.
