Study and simulation of the read-out electronics design for a high-resolution plastic scintillating fiber based hodoscope

•Plastic Scintillating Fibers for high-resolution hodoscopy.•Silicon photodiode read-out electronics design.•Plastic scintillating fibers coupled to Silicon photodiodes read-out.•Charged particle detection with plastic scintillating fibers.

This work presents the study and simulation of a high-resolution charged particle detection device for beam positioning, monitoring and calibration, together with its read-out proposal. To provide the precise positional information of the beam, the detection system has been based on Plastic Scintillating Fibers (PSF), while the read-out on a Silicon-PhotoDiode (Si-PD) array. To carry out the study, a PSF prototype with one detection plane has been experimentally tested with a β particle source. Besides, Monte Carlo simulations of the complete system have also been conducted. Both simulations and experimental tests give consistency to the results obtained. The work presented in this article show the usefulness of this proposal for high-precision charged particle positioning, achieving resolutions up to 100 µm.