Timing performance of large prototype based on $\upmu$RWELL- PICOSEC detector technology with $10 \times 10\ \mathrm{cm}^{2}$ active area
/ Authors
A. Pandey, K. Gnanvo, B. Kross, J. McKisson, A. Weisenberger, W. Xi, J. Dutta, N. Shankman, L. Scharenberg, J. Alozy
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Y. Angelis, S. Aune, R. Ballabriga, J. Bortfeldt, F. Brunbauer, M. Brunoldi, M. Campbell, R. D. Oliveira, G. Fanourakis, J. M. Fernández-Tenllado, K. Flothner, D. Fiorina, M. Gallinaro, F. Garcia, I. Giomataris, S. Gómez, F. J. Iguaz, D. Janssens, A. Kallitsopoulou, M. Kovačić, P. Legou, M. Lisowska, J. Liu, M. Lupberger, R. Manera, I. Maniatis, A. Mariscal, J. Mauricio, Y. Meng, H. Muller, E. Oliveri, G. Orlandini, T. Papaevangelou, E. Picatoste, M. Piller, M. Pomorski, L. Ropelewski, D. Sampsonidis, A. Sanuy, T. Schneider, E. Scorsone, L. Sohl, M. Stenis, Y. Tsipolitis, S. Tzamarias, A. Utrobicic, I. Vai, R. Veenhof, P. Vitulo, X. Wang, S. White, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhou
/ Abstract
The $\upmu$RWELL-PICOSEC detector, which combines a $\upmu$RWELL gaseous amplification structure with a Cherenkov radiator and photocathode, is a novel approach to acheive fast and precise timing in gaseous detectors. With timing precision at the level of tens of picoseconds, this technology is particularly suited for time-of-flight (TOF) applications in particle physics and potentially medical imaging. Beam tests with a 150~GeV/$c$ muon beam have been carried out on a large-area (10~$\times$~10~cm$^{2}$) prototype equipped with a cesium iodide (CsI) photocathode. Using an oscilloscope-based single-channel readout, timing measurements on two individual pads of the detector have yielded resolutions of $\approx$ 48 ps and $\approx$ 52 ps under different biasing conditions respectively.