Precision electronics for a system of custom MCPs in the TORCH Time of Flight detector

R. Gao; N. Brook; L. Castillo García; T. Conneely; D. Cussans; K. Föhl; R. Forty; C. Frei; T. Gys; N. Harnew; D. Piedigrossi; J. Rademacker; A. Ros García; M. Van Dijk

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/C03008

Precision electronics for a system of custom MCPs in the TORCH Time of Flight detector

R. Gao, N. Brook, L. Castillo García, T. Conneely, D. Cussans, K. Föhl, R. Forty, C. Frei, T. Gys, N. Harnew, D. Piedigrossi, J. Rademacker, A. Ros García, M. Van Dijk

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Abstract

The TORCH detector will provide charged particle pi/K/p identification up to 10 GeV/c, combining Time-of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve a timing resolution of 70 ps for single photons. Based on a scalable design, a Time-of-Flight electronics readout system has been developed to instrument a novel customized 512-channel Micro Channel Plate (MCP) device. A Gigabit Ethernet-based readout scheme that operates the TORCH demonstration unit consisting of ten such MCPs will be reported. The trigger and clock distribution will also be discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	C03008
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	12
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/C03008
Publication status	Published - 2 Mar 2017

Keywords

Cherenkov detectors
Electronic detector readout concepts (solid-state)
Front-end electronics for detector readout
Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others)

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Gao, R., Brook, N., García, L. C., Conneely, T., Cussans, D., Föhl, K., Forty, R., Frei, C., Gys, T., Harnew, N., Piedigrossi, D., Rademacker, J., García, A. R., & Dijk, M. V. (2017). Precision electronics for a system of custom MCPs in the TORCH Time of Flight detector. Journal of Instrumentation, 12(3), Article C03008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/C03008

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Precision electronics for a system of custom MCPs in the TORCH Time of Flight detector

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