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

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2011.07.013

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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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	354-360
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
Volume	654
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.07.013
Publication status	Published - 2011

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

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Hoischen, R., Pietri, S., Rudolph, D., Prokopowicz, W., Schaffner, H., Emde, S., Golubev, P., Wendt, A., Kurz, N., Wollersheim, H. J., & Gerl, J. (2011). Fast Timing with Plastic Scintillators for In-beam Heavy-ion Spectroscopy. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 654(1), 354-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.07.013

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