Status of the TORCH time-of-flight project

N. Harnew*, S. Bhasin, T. Blake, N. H. Brook, T. Conneely, D. Cussans, M. van Dijk, R. Forty, C. Frei, E. P.M. Gabriel, R. Gao, T. J. Gershon, T. Gys, T. Hadavizadeh, T. H. Hancock, M. Kreps, J. Milnes, D. Piedigrossi, J. Rademacker

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Abstract

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged π∕K particle identification up to a momentum of 10GeV/c for a 10m flight path. To achieve this level of performance, a time resolution of 15 ps per incident particle is required. TORCH uses a plane of quartz of 1 cm thickness as a source of Cherenkov photons, which are then focussed onto square Micro-Channel Plate Photomultipliers (MCP-PMTs) of active area 53 × 53mm2, segmented into 8 × 128 pixels equivalent. A small-scale TORCH demonstrator with a customised MCP-PMT and associated readout electronics has been successfully operated in a 5GeV/c mixed pion/proton beam at the CERN PS facility. Preliminary results indicate that a single-photon resolution better than 100ps can be achieved. The expected performance of a full-scale TORCH detector for the Upgrade II of the LHCb experiment is also discussed.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Early online date7 Dec 2018
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 7 Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Cherenkov radiation
  • LHCb upgrade
  • Micro-channel plate photomultipliers
  • Particle identification
  • Time-of-flight

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