24–28 May 2021
America/Vancouver timezone

Test-beam performance of a TORCH prototype module

25 May 2021, 08:42
18m
Parallel session talk Experiments: High energy physics Experiments: High energy physics

Speaker

Jennifer Clare Smallwood (University of Oxford (GB))

Description

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide a 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in pi/K particle identification up to 10 GeV/c momentum over a 10 m flight path. Cherenkov photons, produced in a quartz plate of 10 mm thickness, are focused onto an array of micro-channel plate photomultipliers (MCP-PMTs) which measure the photon arrival times and spatial positions. A half-scale (660 x 1250 x 10 mm^3) TORCH demonstrator module has been tested in a 5 GeV/c mixed proton-pion beam at the CERN PS. Customised MCP-PMTs of active area 5 cm^2 and granularity 64 x 64 pixels have been employed, which have been developed in collaboration with an industrial partner. The single-photon timing performance and photon yields have been measured as a function of beam position in the radiator, giving measurements which are consistent with expectations. The expected performance of TORCH for high luminosity running of the LHCb upgraded experiment has been simulated.

TIPP2020 abstract resubmission? Yes, this would have been presented at TIPP2020.

Primary authors

Neville Harnew (University of Oxford (GB)) Jennifer Clare Smallwood (University of Oxford (GB))

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