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.

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