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Sub-10 ps time tagging of electromagnetic showers with scintillating glasses and SiPMs

Marco T. Lucchini*, Andrea Benaglia, Stefan Gundacker, Jack Illare, Paul Lecoq, Alfred Margaryan et.al, Ashot A. Margaryan, Kristof Pauwels, Etiennette Auffray

Received: 2024-07-20 · Published: 2023-06-07

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Sub-10 ps time tagging of electromagnetic showers with scintillating glasses and SiPMs
Authors
Marco T. Lucchini, Andrea Benaglia, Stefan Gundacker, Jack Illare, Paul Lecoq, Alfred Margaryan et.al, Ashot A. Margaryan, Kristof Pauwels, Etiennette Auffray
Source journal
Volume 1051 , June 2023, 168214
Published
2023-06-07
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Original
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168214

Abstract

The high energy physics community has recently identified an 𝑒 +𝑒 − Higgs factory as one of the next-generation collider experiments, following the completion of the High Luminosity LHC program at CERN. The moderate radiation levels expected at such colliders compared to hadron colliders, enable the use of less radiation tolerant but cheaper technologies for the construction of the particle detectors. This opportunity has triggered a renewed interest in the development of scintillating glasses for the instrumentation of large detector volumes such as homogeneous calorimeters. While the performance of such scintillators remains typically inferior in terms of light yield and radiation tolerance compared to that of many scintillating crystals, substantial progress has been made over the recent years. In this paper we discuss the time resolution of cerium-doped Alkali Free Fluorophosphate scintillating glasses, read-out with silicon photo-multipliers in detecting single charged tracks and at different positions along the longitudinal development of an electromagnetic shower, using respectively 150 GeV pions and 100 GeV electron beams at the CERN SPS H2 beam line. A single sensor time resolution of 14.4 ps and 5–7 ps was measured respectively in the two cases. With such a performance the present technology has the potential to address an emerging requirement of future detectors at collider experiments: measuring the time-of-flight of single charged particles as well as that of neutral particles showering inside the calorimeter and the time development of showers.
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