High Rate and High Precision Timing and Calorimeter Detectors

TL;DR

This paper explores advanced detector technologies including doped Zinc Oxide scintillators, high-speed wavelength shifting films, and photomultiplier tubes capable of 300 MHz counting with 10 ps timing, addressing needs in high-rate, high-precision particle physics experiments.

Contribution

It introduces doped Zinc Oxide as a fast, radiation-resistant scintillator and discusses high-speed, high-precision detection components for particle physics.

Findings

Doped Zinc Oxide shows promise as a fast, radiation-resistant scintillator.

Development of PMTs capable of 300 MHz counting with 10 ps timing.

Potential applications in high-rate, high-precision particle detection.

Abstract

High precision timing, high rate calorimeters, and radiation resistance are becoming an important issue in particle physics especially in Energy and Intensity Frontiers. We discuss doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO:Ga or GZO; ZnO:X where X is Al, Cu or others) as a very fast scintillator and wavelength shifter (WLS), Total internal reflection films, and PMT capable of counting at 300 MHz with 10 ps timing precision, with superior radiation resistance.