Precision electronics for a system of custom MCPs in the TORCH Time of Flight detector

The TORCH detector will provide charged particle pi/K/p identification up to 10 GeV/c, combining Time-of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve a timing resolution of 70 ps for single photons. Based on a scalable design, a Time-of-Flight electronics readout system has been developed to instrumen...

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Main Authors: Gao, R, Brook, N, García, L, Conneely, T, Cussans, D, Föhl, K, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gys, T, Harnew, N, Piedigrossi, D, Rademacker, J, García, A, van Dijk, M
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Published: Institute of Physics 2017
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Summary:The TORCH detector will provide charged particle pi/K/p identification up to 10 GeV/c, combining Time-of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve a timing resolution of 70 ps for single photons. Based on a scalable design, a Time-of-Flight electronics readout system has been developed to instrument a novel customized 512-channel Micro Channel Plate (MCP) device. A Gigabit Ethernet-based readout scheme that operates the TORCH demonstration unit consisting of ten such MCPs will be reported. The trigger and clock distribution will also be discussed.