Study of the timing performance of micro-channel plate photomultiplier for use as an active layer in a shower maximum detector

Creators: Ronzhin, A.; Los, S.; Ramberg, E.; Apresyan, A.; Xie, S.; Spiropulu, M.; Kim, H.

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We continue the study of micro-channel plate photomultiplier (MCP-PMT) as the active element of a shower maximum (SM) detector. We present test beam results obtained with Photek 240 and Photonis XP85011 MCP-PMTs devices. For proton beams, we obtained a time resolution of 9.6 ps, representing a significant improvement over past results using the same time of flight system. For electron beams, the time resolution obtained for this new type of SM detector is measured to be at the level of 13 ps when we use Photek 240 as the active element of the SM. Using the Photonis XP85011 MCP-PMT as the active element of the SM, we performed time resolution measurements with pixel readout, and achieved a TR better than 30 ps, The pixel readout was observed to improve upon the TR compared to the case where the individual channels were summed.

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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Received 13 March 2015; Received in revised form 28 May 2015; Accepted 3 June 2015; Available online 14 June 2015. We thank the Fermilab crew for all their help during these test beam measurements. We thank in particular Aria Soha and Eugene Smith for the good beam delivery and control, Ewa Skup for the well working Cherenkov counter and Leo Bellantoni for providing us beam time. This work is supported by funding from Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract no. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy and from California Institute of Technology High Energy Physics under Contract DE-SC0011925 with the United States Department of Energy.

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Study of the timing performance of micro-channel plate photomultiplier for use as an active layer in a shower maximum detector

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