Speaker
Dr
Emrah Tiras
(Iowa State University)
Description
The needs of neutrino experiments are accelerating the technical and commercial development of fast-timing photo-detectors, which offer to revolutionize detectors for high-energy particle physics. Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPDs) bring considerable new capabilities for neutrino reconstruction in Cherenkov and scintillator detectors. LAPPDs are 20 cm x 20 cm flat panel, a micro-channel plate (MCP) based photo-detectors with roughly 50 picosecond single photoelectron (sPE) time resolutions. Their gain characteristics are exceeding 10^7, well comparable with the conventional PMTs. Leveraging this technology to make detailed neutrino measurements, ANNIE will serve as the first demonstration of their impact on physics measurement in a water Cherenkov experiment. Due to their fast timing and powerful imaging capabilities, they can also be used for many applications in nuclear physics, X-ray science, and medical imaging. In this talk, we will discuss efforts towards application readiness of LAPPDs in ANNIE with particular focus on relevance to future neutrino experiments.
Primary author
Dr
Emrah Tiras
(Iowa State University)
