The Scintillating Fiber Tracker of the Ziré Detector Onboard the NUSES Space Mission
NUSES is a pathfinder satellite that will be deployed in a low Earth orbit, designed with new technologies for space-based detectors. Ziré is one of the payloads of NUSES and aims to measure the spectra of electrons, protons, and light nuclei in a kinetic energy range spanning from a few MeVs to several hundred MeVs, as well as photons in the energy range from 0.1 MeV to 30 MeV. Ziré consists of a Fiber TracKer (FTK), a Plastic Scintillator Tower (PST), a calorimeter (CALOg), an AntiCoincidence System (ACS) and a Low Energy Module (LEM). The FTK is based on thin scintillating fibers read out by Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays. We assembled a prototype of Ziré (Zirettino) equipped with a single FTK layer, a reduced number of PST layers and a partially instrumented CALOg. A preliminary version of the Ziré custom Front-End Board (FEB) featuring the on-the-shelf ASIC CITIROC by OMEGA/Weeroc was used for the readout. We carried out several beam test campaigns at CERN’s PS facility and a dynamic qualification test. The performance of FTK will be presented and discussed.
Authors
- G. Panzarini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2586-1021)
- Pierpaolo Savina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7670-554X)
- F. Loparco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-5673)
- Felicia Barbato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0751-6731)
- G. De Robertis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-6236)
- Giulio Fontanella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9890-8397)
- R. Pillera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3808-963X)
- Aleksei Smirnov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3334-9085)
- F. Gargano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5055-6395)
- L. Lorusso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-4401)
- I. De Mitri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8665-1730)
- F. Licciulli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6955-0321)
- M. N. Mazziotta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9325-4672)
- L. Di Venere (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0703-824X)
- A. Di Giovanni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8462-4894)
- M. Giliberti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2835-2963)
- A. Liguori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4240-6362)
Institutions
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari (IT)
- Gran Sasso Science Institute (IT)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Particles
- Published
- 2025-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/particles8040093
- Primary Topic
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme