Abstract
Abstract
Recent years have shown an increased use of silicon
photomultipliers (SiPM) in experiments as they are of reasonable
cost, have relatively low power consumption and are easily available
in a variety of form factors allowing for a large number of readout
channels. At the same time, experiments are generating data at
increasingly high rates requiring the use of more efficient readout
systems. In this work, the dead time, efficiency, dynamic range,
coincidence time resolution and energy resolution of five different
readout systems at various stages of maturity are evaluated to
determine the best system for acquiring data from a detector in a
high rate experiment. Additional functionalities of the systems are
also discussed.