Time-of-Flight particle identification system in NA61/SHINE Experiment at CERN

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VBLHEP Specialised Seminar

A. M. Baldin Relativistic nuclear physics and polarisation phenomena #812

Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 July 2023, at 11:00 AM

Venue: bld. 3, Conference hall, Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics; online on Volna

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Seminar topic: “Time-of-Flight particle identification system in the NA61/SHINE Experiment at CERN”

Speaker: Andrei Zaitsev

Authors: Vadim Babkin^a, Svyatoslav Buzin^a, Alexander Burdyko^{a, d}, Mikhail Buryakov^a, Vyacheslav Golovatyuk^a, Alexander Dmitriev^a, Boris Dubinchik^a, Petar Dulov^{a, b}, Rodion Kolesnikov^a, Alexander Malakhov^{a, c}, Mikhail Rumyantsev^a, Andrei Zaitsev^a

^a Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
^b Plovdiv University “Paisius of Hilendarsky”, Bulgaria
^c Dubna State University
^d University of Insubria, Italy

Abstract:

A new Time-of-Flight (ToF) system of the NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN SPS has been developed in 2019 – 2022 by the LHEP JINR group. The new ToF is based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) technology. The system has substituted the previous system consisting of scintillation counters. This report gives an overview of the new NA61/SHINE ToF system.