Status of the TORCH time-of-flight detector

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

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/11/C11026

Status of the TORCH time-of-flight detector

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

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The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed for large-area coverage, up to 30 m², to provide particle identification between 2-10 GeV/c momentum over a flight distance of 10 m. The arrival times from Cherenkov photons produced within a quartz radiator plate of 10 mm thickness are combined to achieve a 15 ps time-of-flight resolution per incident particle. Micro-Channel Plate Photomultiplier Tube (MCP-PMT) detectors of 53 × 53 mm² active area have been developed with industrial partners for the TORCH application. The MCP-PMT is read out using charge division to give a 128 × 8 effective granularity. Laboratory results of development MCP-PMTs will be described, and testbeam studies using a small-scale TORCH prototype module will be presented.

Original language	English
Article number	C11026
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	12
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/11/C11026
Publication status	Published - 23 Nov 2017

Keywords

Cherenkov detectors
Particle identification methods
Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum)
Timing detectors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics

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