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Development of scalable electronics for the TORCH time-of-flight detector

Christoph Frei
2015
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The TORCH detector is proposed for the low-momentum particle identification upgrade of the LHCb experiment. It combines Time-Of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve charged particle separation up to 10 GeV/c. This requires a time resolution of 70 ps for single photons. Existing electronics has already demonstrated a 26 ps intrinsic time resolution; however the channel count and density need improvements for future micro-channel plate devices. This paper will report on a scalable design using custom ASICs (NINO-32 and HPTDC). The system provides up to 8 x 64 channels for a single micro-channel plate device. It is also designed to read out micro-channel plate tubes with charge-sharing technique.

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Christoph Frei
2015
Journal Articles

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/181ee4bf-7212-4f4f-aee2-6300690abd96

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