Status in
 1996:
 •TMAE and
 CsI have serious problems in long term operation at very high rates
 •Hamamatsu
 just came out with the metail foil multianode PMTs of the R5900 series: first
 multianode PMTs with very little cross-talk
 •Tested on
 the bench and in the beam: excellent performance ŕeasy decision