Fast Timing with Plastic Scintillators for In-beam Heavy-ion Spectroscopy

Robert Hoischen, S. Pietri, Dirk Rudolph, W. Prokopowicz, H. Schaffner, S. Emde, Pavel Golubev, A. Wendt, N. Kurz, H. J. Wollersheim, J. Gerl

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Abstract

The design, R&D, and testing of a new plastic-scintillator detector for Time-of-Flight measurements with relativistic heavy-ion beams are presented. A design approach using 32 independent precise timing measurements of the same physical event is followed. This is different from the conventional scheme, which aims at two or four high-precision measurements. A circular, 27 cm in diameter, BC-420 plastic-scintillator sheet is read-out by 32 photomultiplier tubes in order to achieve an intrinsic detector resolution on the order of 10 Ps root mean square. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)354-360
JournalNuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
Volume654
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Free keywords

  • Plastic scintillator
  • Heavy ion
  • Time-of-Flight
  • Fast timing
  • Time
  • resolution

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