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    New developments from the TORCH R&D project

    Jones, T, Bhasin, S, Blake, T, Brook, N ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1818-0113, Cicala, MF, Conneely, T, Cussans, D, van Dijk, MWU, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gabriel, EPM, Gao, R, Gershon, T, Gys, T, Hadavizadeh, T, Hancock, TH, Harnew, N, Kreps, M, Milnes, J, Piedigrossi, D, Rademacker, J and Smallwood, JC (2023) New developments from the TORCH R&D project. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 1045. p. 167535. ISSN 0168-9002

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    Abstract

    TORCH is a large-area and high-precision time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged particle identification over a 2–20GeV/c momentum range. The TORCH detector comprises a 10 mm thick quartz radiator, instrumented with photon detectors, which precisely time and measure the arrival positions of the Cherenkov photons. The photon detectors are micro-channel plate photo-multiplier tubes (MCP-PMTs) comprising a finely segmented anode of 64 × 64 anode pads, electronically ganged into 64 × 8 pixels, over a 53 × 53mm2 area, an excellent intrinsic time resolution of ∼ 30ps, and a long lifetime of up to ≳ 5C/cm2. The current version of the MCP-PMTs used by TORCH have been developed with an industrial partner, Photek Ltd, to satisfy the stringent requirements of the detector. The TORCH R&D programme has successfully demonstrated the detector concept through extensive laboratory and beam tests. A TORCH prototype has been constructed and has yielded encouraging results when exposed to low momentum charged hadrons. Characteristic patterns of Cherenkov photons have been recorded, illustrating the required spatial accuracy and timing resolution of 70 ps per photon. Both laboratory and beam test results are approaching the design goals of the TORCH detector.

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