Turns out, the factory in Ukraine makes pre-assembled blocks of wls scintillator,
with grooves
for the wls fibers. We received 3 blocks, 21 cm long, consisting of 18 5×5mm
scintillator bars, with 1.5 mm grooves milled i. Our blocks eed to be 16 wide, but
it was easy to split off 2 bars
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If we cut the blocks (block 1 14 and 7 cm, block 2 9,9,3 cm, and block 3 11,6,4 cm
we can make a 32 cm long, 2-layer test assembly.
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3 6 9 14
4 7 9 11
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The yellow block has 16 3cm bars, with the grooves on top. The
grey coupler is glued to the scintillator block, and the wls fibers continue to
the grey-red interface, and are gued in the grey coupler ad polished. The red
block holds the 0.5 mm fibers, and is attached to the grey coupler with 4 M2
screws. The M2 nuts drop in the rectangular holes.
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The conectors drop 4.5mm below the scintillator blocks, and another 3mm is needed
for the output ribbons.
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To minimize mass of the supporting tray, the space can be made of honeycomb
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