Development of TPC Trigger Hodoscope for J-PARC E42/E45 hadron experiment

Jung, W.*; Ahn, J. K.*; 長谷川 勝一; Hicks, K.*; Hwang, S.*; 市川 裕大; Kim, S.*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖

JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 27, p.011007_1 - 011007_6, 2019/11

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.27.011007

We have developed HypTPC consists of TPC and the trigger hodoscope for the J-PARC hadron experiments. The TPC Hodoscope has large scintillators of 80 7 1 cm to cover the TPC. Especially, we have developed a readout circuit for multiple MPPCs to detect photons generated over a large area of the scintillator. A general methods of applying voltage to multiple MPPCs are parallel and series connections. In the case of parallel connections, a signal has a long tail due to the large sensor capacitance. MEG collaboration used four MPPC segments as a serial connection. However, in the case of a series connection, the requiring bias voltage is very high, and the gain is low. To avoid this problem, we have developed a new individual biasing method with a summing amplifier for stable multiple MPPC readouts. We also made prototype detectors and performed a cosmic-ray test. Brief descriptions of our prototypes and preliminary results of the cosmic-ray test are presented in this article.