CP3 Lunch -GASTOF: A fast timing detector for exclusive processes at the LHC - Nicolas Schul

by Mr Nicolas Schul (FYNU - CP3)

Wednesday 28 Jan 2009, 13:00 → 13:50 Europe/Brussels

Cycl.06

At the LHC, forward physics offers interesting potential if one can use very forward detectors. Unfortunately, because cross-sections are femtobarn-level, one have to be able to run these detectors at high luminosity, when overlap background (pileup) becomes a significant concern. In order to reduce this background, a timing detector prototype GASTOF was designed and manufactured at UCLouvain for the FP420 project. The talk will present the requirements for a timing detector at the LHC, as well as some outputs from our C++-based simulation code.