μRWELL-PICOSEC: Precision timing with resistive micro-well detector

Gnanvo K, Aleksan R, Angelis Y, Aune S, Bortfeldt J, Brunbauer F, Brunoldi M, Chatzianagnostou E, Datta J, Dehmelt K, Fanourakis G, Ferry S, Fiorina D, Floethner KJ, Gallinaro M, Garcia F, Giomataris I, Iguaz FJ, Janssens D, Kallitsopoulou A, Karakoulias I, Kovacic M, Kross B, Lai CC, Legou P, Lisowska M, Liu J, Lupberger M, Maniatis I, McKisson J, Meng Y, Micetic M, Muller H, De Oliveira R, Oliveri E, Orlandini G, Pandey A, Papaevangelou T, Pomorski M, Robert M, Ropelewski L, Salamon K, Sampsonidis D, Scharenberg L, Schneider T, Scorsone E, Shankman N, Sohl L, van Stenis M, Tsipolitis Y, Tzamarias S, Utrobicic A, Vai I, Veenhof R, Viezzi L, Vitulo P, Volpato C, Wang X, Weisenberger A, White S, Zhang Z, Zhou Y (2027)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2027

Journal

Book Volume: 1093

Article Number: 172001

DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2026.172001

Abstract

The MPGD PICOSEC detector combines the amplification structure of micro pattern gaseous detector (MPGD) technologies with a Cherenkov radiator coated with a semi-transparent photocathode to provide a time resolution better than a few tens of ps with minimum ionizing particles. The technology has garnered interest within the MPGD community for the development of time-of-flight (TOF) detectors for particle identification and fast timing detectors for track reconstruction in high rate environment for future nuclear and high energy physics experiments. The PICOSEC-MM collaboration has demonstrated better than 20 ps time resolution capability achieved with prototypes based on Micromegas amplification structure. An alternative approach, the μRWELL-PICOSEC detector using μRWELL amplification structure, is under investigation at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). First beam test results with single channel μRWELL-PICOSEC prototypes demonstrate a time resolution reaching the excellent value of 23.58 ± 0.55 ps. A vigorous R&D effort is ongoing to improve the timing performance, robustness and operational stability of μRWELL-PICOSEC detectors. Development of a large size μRWELL-PICOSEC is also under consideration for applications in large scale experiments.

Involved external institutions

Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung (CERN) Switzerland (CH) Università degli Studi di Pavia Italy (IT) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece (GR) University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu Croatia (HR) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility United States (USA) (US) European Spallation Source (ESS ERIC) Sweden (SE) Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'univers (IRFU) France (FR) Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) / 中国科学院高能物理研究所 China (CN) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Germany (DE) Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) / Institut Ruđer Bošković (IRB) Croatia (HR) National Technical University of Athens / Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο Greece (GR) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Germany (DE) State University of New York at Albany (UNY Albany / UAlbany) United States (USA) (US) Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics / Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP) Portugal (PT) Helsinki Institute of Physics Finland (FI) CEA-LIST: Laboratory for Integration of Systems and Technology France (FR)

How to cite

APA:

Gnanvo, K., Aleksan, R., Angelis, Y., Aune, S., Bortfeldt, J., Brunbauer, F.,... Zhou, Y. (2027). μRWELL-PICOSEC: Precision timing with resistive micro-well detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2026.172001

MLA:

Gnanvo, K., et al. "μRWELL-PICOSEC: Precision timing with resistive micro-well detector." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1093 (2027).

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