EAST SUSSEX, UK, Feb 2022

Photek is proud to have collaborated with CERN providing TORCH, a new detector for the LHCb facility at the Large Hadron Collider, one of the four major experiments operating at the site. The TORCH collaboration consisted of CERN and the universities of Oxford, Warwick, and Bristol, along with Photek who were tasked with producing the novel PMT needed for the development. The requirements for the new PMT consisted of three main aims that were not widely available when the project began in 2012: A square format with an 88% packing density in one dimension, an operating lifetime capable of accumulating 5 C/cm2 of anode charge without a significant drop in sensitivity, and a multi-anode readout capable or resolving < 100 μm position resolution for single photons in one dimension. It also had to achieve the < 100 ps single photon timing expected of PMTs based on microchannel plates (MCPs). The project was successfully achieved with 10 prototype PMTs being delivered to CERN in the summer of 2017. Photek developed a novel A.C. coupled anode that deliberately shares charge between neighbouring anode pads to interpolate the photon position, this design has since been patented. The PMT design has been adapted to form a more traditional D.C. anode version with a 64 x 64 readout pattern known as the MAPMT253, now commercially available.

TORCH DETECTOR NEWS

VCI2022 The 16th Vienna Conference On Instrumentation February 25th, 2022 14:00

Come Hear Maria Flavia Cicala present a talk entitled: Picosecond timing of charged particles using the TORCH detector 

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