The experimental requirements in near future accelerators (e.g. High Luminosity-LHC) has stimulated intense interest in development of detectors with high precision timing capabilities. With this as a goal, a new detection concept called PICOSEC, which is based to a "two-stage" MicroMegas detector coupled to a Cherenkov radiator equipped with a photocathode has been developed. Results obtained with this new detector yield a time resolution of 24\,ps for 150\,GeV muons and 76\,ps for single photoelectrons. In this paper we will report on the performance of the PICOSEC in test beams, as well as simulation studies and modelling of its timing characteristics.
@article{arxiv.1901.03355,
title = {Precise Charged Particle Timing with the PICOSEC Detector},
author = {J. Bortfeldt and F. Brunbauer and C. David and D. Desforge and G. Fanourakis and J. Franchi and M. Gallinaro and F. García and I. Giomataris and T. Gustavsson and C. Guyot and F. J. Iguaz and M. Kebbiri and K. Kordas and P. Legou and J. Liu and M. Lupberger and O. Maillard and I. Manthos and H. Müller and V. Niaouris and E. Oliveri and T. Papaevangelou and K. Paraschou and M. Pomorski and B. Qi and F. Resnati and L. Ropelewski and D. Sampsonidis and T. Schneider and P. Schwemling and L. Sohl and M. van Stenis and P. Thuiner and Y. Tsipolitis and S. E. Tzamarias and R. Veenhof and X. Wang and S. White and Z. Zhang and Y. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03355},
year = {2019}
}
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7 pages, 7 figures, 10th Jubilee Conference of the Balkan Physical Union