Speaker
Nicolaus Kratochwil
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
Description
The PANDA experiment at the new FAIR facility at GSI will perform high precision experiments in the strange and charm quark sector using cooled beams of antiprotons at high luminosity, in the momentum range of 1.5 GeV/c to 15 GeV/c. For the identification of low momentum charged particles with extreme accuracy, the barrel time-of-flight (TOF) detector is one of the key components of PANDA. Its main requirement is to achieve a time resolution of σ<100ps as well as a large solid angle coverage at high collision rates.
The final Barrel ToF consists of 16 independent segments, located azimuthally at 50cm radial distance from the beam pipe. Every segment contains a sensitive area, that is covered by 2x60 single Scintillator Tile (SciTil). Each SciTil (90 x 30 x 5 mm³) is read out by 4 Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) on both ends.
In 2016, a beam test at CERN exposed the SciTil with 6 GeV/c secondary beam where σ<60 ps time resolution was reached. In this talk we will present the further optimization of operational conditions and time resolution.
Primary authors
Albert Lehmann
(Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
Carsten Schwarz
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany)
Dominik Steinschaden
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
Herbert Orth
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany)
Kai Brinkmann
(Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen II. Physikalisches Institut, Gießen, Germany)
Kamal Dutta
(Gauhati University, Physics Department, Guwahati, India)
Ken Suzuki
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
Klaus Götzen
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany)
Kushal Kalita
(Gauhati University, Physics Department, Guwahati, India)
Lars Schmitt
(FAIR, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe, Darmstadt, Germany)
Lukas Gruber
(European Organiz. for Nuclear Res. (CERN), Geneva, Szitzerland)
Marius Chirita Mihaila
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
Merlin Böhm
(Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
Nicolaus Kratochwil
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
Sebastian Zimmermann
(Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen II. Physikalisches Institut, Gießen, Germany / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
