Future use of silicon photomultiplier for Kaos at MAMI and PANDA at FAIR

A characterisation of recently developed SiPM was performed in view of their possible application with scintillating fibres. The use of SiPM as part of the fibre tracking detector system of the Kaos spectrometer at MAMI was studied. A concept of similar SiPM/fibre assemblies is being considered for the time-of-flight start detector in the PANDA experiment for the FAIR project. In summary, the devices are very suitable for low light yield detection insofar a mechanism is found to cope with the noise rate characteristics and radiation hardness.