Measurement of parameters of scintillating bars with wavelength-shifting   fibres and silicon photomultiplier readout for the SHiP Muon Detector
  The light yield and the time resolution of different types of 3 m long scintillating bars instrumented with wavelength shifting fibres and read out by different models of silicon photomultipliers have been measured at a test beam at the T9 area at the CERN Proton Synchrotron. The results obtained with different configurations are presented. A time resolution better than 800 ps, constant along the bar length within 20%, and a light yield of ~ 140 (70) photoelectrons are obtained for bars 3 m long, 4.5 (5) cm wide and 2 (0.7) cm thick. These results nicely match the requirements for the Muon Detector of the SHiP experiment. 
W.Baldini, A.Blondel, A.Calcaterra, R. Jacobsson, A.Khotjantsev,   Yu.Kudenko, V.Kurochka, G.Lanfranchi, A.Mefodiev, O.Minee...
physics.ins-det hep-ex