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Status of the TORCH Project

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The TORCH time-of-flight detector will provide particle identification between 2–10 GeV/c momentum over a flight distance of 10 m, and is designed for large-area coverage, up to 30 m2. A 15 ps time-of-flight resolution per incident particle is anticipated by measuring the arrival times from Cherenkov photons produced in a synthetic fused silica radiator plate of 10 mm thickness. Customised Micro-Channel Plate Photomultiplier Tube (MCP-PMT) photon detectors of 53 × 53 mm2 active area with a 64 × 64 granularity have been developed with industrial partners. Test-beam studies using both a small-scale TORCH demonstrator and a half-length TORCH module are presented. The desired timing resolution of 70 ps per single photon is close to being achieved.
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Published
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10.1088/1748-0221/15/04/C04031

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Physics
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Publisher:
IOP Publishing
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Journal of Instrumentation More from this journal
Volume:
15
Article number:
C04031
Publication date:
2020-04-14
Acceptance date:
2020-03-04
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1748-0221


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1100423
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2020-04-16
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