A time-of-flight system for the external target facility

Zhang Xueheng; Yu Yuhong; Sun Zhiyu; Mao Ruishi; Wang Shitao; Zhou Yong; Yan Duo; Liu Longxiang

A time-of-flight system for the external target facility

Instrumentation and Detectors 2013-05-23 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Authors: Zhang Xueheng , Yu Yuhong , Sun Zhiyu , Mao Ruishi , Wang Shitao , Zhou Yong , Yan Duo , Liu Longxiang

Abstract

A time-of-flight system with a plastic scintillator coupled to photomultipliers is developed for the external target facility (ETF). This system can satisfy the requirement of an ultrahigh vacuum ( $\sim 10^{-9}$ mbar), a high counting rate ( $\sim 10^{6}$ particles per second) and a magnetic field environment. In the beam test experiment, a total time resolution of 580 ps FWHM was obtained for the whole system, and nuclei with a mass of up to 80 could be identified using this system.

Keywords

silicon photomultipliers accelerator physics neutron detection

Cite

@article{arxiv.1305.5001,
  title  = {A time-of-flight system for the external target facility},
  author = {Zhang Xueheng and Yu Yuhong and Sun Zhiyu and Mao Ruishi and Wang Shitao and Zhou Yong and Yan Duo and Liu Longxiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.5001},
  year   = {2013}
}

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