The CBM Time-of-Flight system
The Compressed Baryonic Matter spectrometer (CBM) is a future fixed-target heavy-ion experiment located at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The key element in CBM providing hadron identification at incident beam energies between 2 and 11 AGeV (for Au-nuclei...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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13 September 2019
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Journal of Instrumentation
Year: 2019, Volume: 14, Issue: 9 |
| ISSN: | 1748-0221 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-0221/14/09/C09020 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/09/C09020
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| Author Notes: | I. Deppner, N. Herrmann, on behalf of the CBM collaboration |
| Summary: | The Compressed Baryonic Matter spectrometer (CBM) is a future fixed-target heavy-ion experiment located at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The key element in CBM providing hadron identification at incident beam energies between 2 and 11 AGeV (for Au-nuclei) will be a 120 m2 large Time-of-Flight (ToF) wall composed of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) with a time resolution of the system better than 80 ps. Aiming for an interaction rate of 10 MHz for Au+Au collisions the MRPCs have to cope with an incident particle flux between 0.1 kHz/cm2 and 100 kHz/cm2 depending on their location. Being the system characterized by wide ranges of both granularity and rate capability, the conceptual design of the ToF-wall foresees 6 different granularities and 4 different detector designs. In order to elaborate the final MRPC design of these counters several heavy-ion in-beam and cosmic-ray tests were performed. In this contribution we present the conceptual design of the TOF wall and discuss the performance results of full-size MRPC prototypes. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 04.03.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1748-0221 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-0221/14/09/C09020 |