Tools for Diffractive Studies at Full LHC Luminosity

by Prof. Sebastian White (Rockefeller University)

Thursday 15 Dec 2011, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Rome

131 (INFN edificio C)

After briefly reviewing the opportunities, enabled in part by the variety of beam species the LHC provides and the insertion region geometry, I will discuss a new detector technology for high performance fast timing which is compact and has completely scalable segmentation. Under a grant from the US DOE Advanced Detector R&D program our group (Kirk McDonald, Princeton and I are co-PI's) are currently carrying out beam tests at PSI and Frascati as well as at the Accelerator Test Facility, where we have been working for almost 2 years. An upcoming measurement at Mass General Hospital's accelerator will address further issues concerning radiation damage. I will present some results from our initial measurements and then discuss issues in implementing this in the existing experiments, such as electronics and readout options for picosecond timing.