Speaker
henry frisch
(university of chicago)
Description
The precision of large-area spatial measurements has improved dramatically over
the last 50 years due to the invention of silicon strip and pixel detectors. The precision
of large-area time measurements, however, has only recently started to attract a similar
level of attention and investment. The ultimate time resolution of large-area devices
is not yet known, but the intrinsic resolution of sensors can be much better than the
1-inch resolution typical of large time-of-flight systems. I will discuss the status of the
development of large-area micro-channel-plate-based detectors, for which the intrinsic
scale that determines the time resolution is 10’s of microns. There are challenges,
but (so far) it seems no show-stoppers. I will touch on some of the many proposed
applications.
Primary author
henry frisch
(university of chicago)
