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Description
TORCH is a novel particle identification detector for the high-luminosity Upgrade-II of LHCb. This research also contributes to CERN’s DRD4 programme. TORCH is designed to provide 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in K/pi (p/K) particle identification up to 10 (15) GeV/c momentum over a 10 m flight path. Cherenkov photons radiated from a 1cm thick quartz plate are focussed onto micro-channel-plate detectors (MCP-PMTs), with fast timing and high spatial resolution. Test-beam results from the CERN PS in 2022 will be presented, as well as TORCH’s recently developed light-weight carbon-fibre support structure and novel exo-skeleton jigging system. The development of a 16 x 96 pixelated MCP-PMT will be also be described. Finally, we present progress on the computationally challenging TORCH pattern recognition, which has been implemented on IPUs, a novel highly parallel processor.
| Alternate track | 05. Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics |
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