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TORCH: Time of Flight Identification with Cherenkov Radiation

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-08-13 v1
Authors: M. J. Charles , R. Forty
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Abstract

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector concept using Cherenkov light to provide charged particle identification up to 10 GeV/c. The concept and design are described and performance in simulation is quantified.

Keywords

TORCH time-of-flight detector Cherenkov radiation charged particle identification simulation performance

Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.3793,
  title  = {TORCH: Time of Flight Identification with Cherenkov Radiation},
  author = {M. J. Charles and R. Forty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3793},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of RICH2010 to be published in Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A

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