AFP Fast Timing SystemAndrew Brandt, University of Texas at Arlington

in collaboration with Alberta, Giessen, Stony Brook, and FNAL, Louvain, LLNL (CMS)

OUTLINE:•Introduction and requirements•Detectors and test beam performance•Electronics, including reference timing•Laser tests•PMT lifetime•Cost, Schedule, TDAQ

AFP Technical Review CERN April 7, 20111

10 picoseconds is design goal(light travels 3mm in 10 psec!)gives ~x20 fake background rejection;Stage I: 2014 220 m few 1033 t < 20 ps Stage II: 2016 add 420 m 1034 t <10 ps

Motivation

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Use time difference between protons to measure z-vertex and compare with inner detector vertex. In 220 m phase this will provide crucial confirmation that any observed signal is legit

Pileup background rejection/signal confirmation

Ex: Two protons from one interaction and two b-jets from another

WHY?

How?

How Fast?

Final Timing System Requirements

• 10 ps or better resolution• Acceptance over full range of proton x+y• Near 100% efficiency• High rate capability (~5 MHz/pixel)• Segmentation for multi-proton timing • L1 trigger Capability• Radiation Tolerant

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Note: For 220 m at modest luminosity/multiple interactions, the requirements are not as stringent:

20 ps resolution, perhaps 1-2 MHz/pixel, multi-protons on same side not a significant problem, and the Level 1 trigger capability is not strictly necessary.

AFP Baseline Plan

Two types of Cerenkov detector are employed:

GASTOF – a gas Cerenkov detector that makes a single measurement

QUARTIC – two QUARTIC detectors each with 4 rows of 8 fused silica bar will be positioned after the last 3D-Si tracking station because of the multiple scattering effects in the fused silica.

Both detectors employ Microchannel Plate PMTs (MCP-PMTs)

30 cm

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Components of AFP Fast Timing

Reference Timing

Opto-modules/

ROD

HV/LV

Cerenkov Radiator L1 Trigger

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From joint 2010 ATLAS/CMS CERN TBt(G1-G2)=14 ps implies 10 ps single detector resolution! BUT… only one single measurement, no segmentation, electronics challenging.

Wonderful detector developed by K. Piotrzkowski (U.C. Louvain).Low index of refraction means little time dispersion, extremely accurate, radiation hard, little material for Multiple scattering

GASTOF

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4x8 array of 5-6 mm2 fused silica bars

QUARTIC is Primary AFP Timing Detector UTA, Alberta, Giessen, Stony Brook, FNAL

Multiple measurements with “modest” resolution simplifies requirements in all phases of system1) We have a readout solution for this option (can plug GASTOF into this)2)We can have a several meter cable run to a lower radiation area where electronics will be located (without degrading overall system resolution)3)Segmentation and L1 trigger is natural for this detector4)Possible optimization with fibers instead of bars—discuss later

Only need a 40 ps measurement if you can do it 16 times: 2 detectors with 8 bars each, with about 10 pe’s per bar

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Micro-Channel Plate Photomultiplier Tube

Burle/Photonis 64 channel 10 and 25 m pore MCP-PMTs have been tested extensively with test beam and laser and would be default for first stage except for lifetime issues (later)

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MCP-PMT RequirementsExcellent time resolution: 20-30 ps or better for 10 pe’s High rate capability: Imax= 3 A/cm2

Long Lifetime: Q = 10-20 C/cm2/year at 400 nmMulti anode: pixel size of ~6 mm x 6mm Pore Size: 10 m or smaller Tube Size: 40 mm round, 1 or 2 inch square

Need to have capability of measurements in different parts of tube between 0-2 ns apart, and in same part of the tube 25 ns apart 9

Photek240 (1ch)

HamamatsuSL10 (4ch)

2010 CMS/ATLAS Fermilab Test Beam

2 x2 mmTrigger Scint

siPM courtesy of Ronzhin, Albrow

Use siPM in beam as reference for evaluating QUARTIC 10

2010 QUARTIC Test Beam Results

Time Difference between adjacent bars is <20 ps, implies <14 ps/barincluding bar, PMT, CFD! Too good to be true: due to charge sharing and light sharing, bars are correlated.

Time Difference between “distant bars” 4 and 7 is 37 ps, implies 25 ps/bar (exceeds QUARTIC design goals!!!)

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t(siPM – Quartic Bar)

Tails due to large pulses from multiple protons saturating amps

t=28 ps if Q~25siPM <15 ps

siPM-(avg of 3 quartic bars ) reduced from ~28 (for single bar) to 21ps consistent with expectations

Note MCP-PMT withQuartz bar in beam “Nagoya Detector” cangive ~5ps resolution

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Giessen Fiber Quartic

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From Sabrina Darmawi’s thesis, Michael Dueren, Hasko et al

•Facilitates variable bin size to optimize rate+lifetime•Simulations promising•Needs upgraded readout electronics to fully evaluatePrototype performance

Preliminary Fermilab tests indicate improved time resolution over quartz bars by up to 30%, even though less total light

More studies needed including effect of fiber pigtails for better mapping onto the MCP-PMT

Alberta Fiber Quartic

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Electronics Layout

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ALCFD

ALCFD (Alberta/Louvain Constant Fraction Discriminator): 8 channel NIM unit with mini-module approachtuned to PMT rise time, <5 ps resolution for 4 or more pe’s

ZX60 4 GHz amplifier(we use pairs of 4, 8 GHzamps in different combinationsto control total amplification) We will replace with diode/amp board that fits on tube

Stony Brook upgrade in progress to add trigger capability based on coincidence of quartz bars and basic ADC for monitoring gain

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Alberta HPTDC board

12 ps resolution with pulser including non-linearity corrections. Successfully tested at UTA laser test stand with laser/10 m tube/ZX60 amp/LCFD

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LCFD_Ch01_No12_spe, high level light, May 6, 2009, UTA laser test RMS resolution = 13.7 ps

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14 psTDC resolution in laser tests

Test beam data complicated by 19 ns bunch structure

Concern:HPTDC designed to operate with 40 MHz clock

but with occupancy of <2 MHZ; at high luminosity this might not be sufficient

QUARTIC HPTDC QUARTIC HPTDC Buffering Buffering

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Hit rate (MHz) Total hits Loss hits Loss rate

4 7190 7 9.74e-4

6 5117 45 8.79e-3

8 3160 107 3.39e-2

10 1424 118 8.29e-2

12 739 111 0.15

14 306 60 0.196

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Hit rate (MHz) Total hits Loss hits Loss rate

8 53244 1 1.88e-5

10 7783 2 2.57e-4

12 9072 6 6.61e-4

15 10713 12 1.12e-3

18 5998 33 5.5e-3

20 2404 27 1.12e-2

22 2589 37 1.43e-2

24 2747 79 2.88e-2

Loss rate in channel buffer forLogic core clock = 40MHz

Loss rate in channel buffer forLogic core clock = 80MHz

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Reference Timing OverviewReference timing is needed to connect two arms ~ 0.5 km apart; what we want is TL-TR, what we measure is (TL-Tref)-(TR-Tref), so need small jitter in Tref Solution has been developed by SLAC/LLNL involving phase lock loop. We need only minor modifications to use 400 MHz RF instead of 476 MHz, and circuit to convert 400 MHz to 40 MHz and multiplex clock for use in HPTDC board

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Reference Timing Test Results

SLAC test show 10 ps total variation over 20 C! Adding a correction for temperature, or controlling temperature of electronics (not cable) will reduce the jitter to a couple ps!)

Ref. Timing Rate Ref. Timing Rate ReductionReduction

Concern: integrating reference time into DAQ since 40 MHz rate too high for occupancy restrictions

But actually we only need reference time for good events!

1) Form a trigger based on multiplicity of CFD signals in one row

-example if at least 4/8 bars have a signal

2) Only send CFD signals to HPTDC board if trigger is satisfied

3) Trigger reference time signal as well, so a chip will have 4 inputs:

three bars in the row where trigger was satisfied, and the ref time

signal corresponding to that row

4) possibly also keep some prescaled signals for monitoring

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L1 TRIGGERL1 TRIGGERThe Trigger formed in previous slide for controlling reference time rates can also be used for a L1 Trigger, instead of dedicated trigger detector

In 2014-2016 simple trigger, based on hits in timing detectors, 1 CTP term for each proton side. Use large diameter air core cables to minimize the cable delay due to latency concerns

For 420 can use several bins and combine with jet information from calorimeter

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LeCroy Wavemaster 6 GHz Oscilloscope

Laser Box

Hamamatsu PLP-10 Laser Power Supply

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laserlensesfilterMCP-PMT

beam splittermirror

Established with DOE ADR, Texas ARP funds,

Beam Mode Fiber Mode

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10 pe Time Resolution from Laser Tests

Laser tests of Photonis 10 µm tube show that with sufficient amplification there is

no dependence of timing on gain (low gain operation extends lifetime of tube) 25

No rate dependence on number of pixels hit (that’s a good thing!)

Saturation from Laser Tests

Saturation refers to the reduction in amplitude of the output signal due to the pores becoming busy at the rate increases (typically 1 msec recovery time/pore). This plot shows that saturation is a local phenomena, and is unaffected by multiple channels being on at the same time.

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Lifetime IssuesLifetime due to positive ions damaging the photocathode is believed to be proportional to extracted charge: Q/year = I*107 sec/year Q for <I>=2 A/cm2 is 20 C/cm2/yr

Can reduce this requirement with fiber detector but still off by at least a factor of 20, so developed an R&D plan to pursue this

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Extending Lifetime•Inhibit positive ions from reaching photo-cathode - Ion Barrier: aluminum film on top of MCP’s (had reduced collection efficiency side effect) so Nagoya developed new approach (between MCP’s). Factor of 5 or more lifetime increase (~3 C/cm2) for 4x4 SL10

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Extending Lifetime•Minimize creation of positive ions - Use ALD coating of MCP’s (funded SBIR proposal with Arradiance and Photonis in progress)

NEW RESULTS HERE

•Harden photocathode or improve its composition - solar blind photocathode could reduce impact of positive ions

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Photocathode

Dual MCP

Anode

Gain ~ 106

Photoelectron

V ~ 200V

V ~ 200V

V ~ 2000V

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Arradiance coating suppresses positive ion creation (NSF SBIR Arradiance, UTA, Photonis)

+Ion Barrier keeps positive ions from reaching photocathode(developed by Nagoya with Hamamatsu

Use Photek Solar Blind photocathode or similar (responds only to lower wavelength/more robust)

Increase anode voltage to reduce crosstalk (UTA)

V ~ 500V

Gain <105

Run at low gain to reduce integrated charge (UTA)

Improve vacuumSeal (Nagoya/ Hamamatsu)

A Long Life MCP-PMT e-

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UTA laser resultsconsistent with UTA/FNAL TBresults 16 ps for 25 pe(expectedamount ofLight using quartz radiatorin front of SiPM)But this is not viable design, Radiation wiseWould need a Quartic-like design

Ronzhin, AlbrowAt FNAL have been studying

Possible MCP-PMT Alterntive: SIPM

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Funding

Need to discuss with collaborators beforefilling this out

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Manpower

Need to discuss with collaborators beforefilling this out

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Estimated Production Cost

380k$ for 1Q+1G

500k$ for 1Q+2G

680k$ incl. spares

No Gastof option Removes about 100k$

Red numbers are not as well known

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“Schedule”

Minimal coupling between timing sub-components meansdevelopment and production of all parts can proceed essentially in parallel. System factorizes into1)Radiator: have a quartz bar solution, would prefer fibers if comparable performance2)PMT: likely modified Planacon or modified SL10, both have same pixel size+layout 3)Electronics chain: amplifier/CFD/HPTDC 4)Reference Clock5)Infrastructure (HV/LV/Cable)6)Detector integration into Hamburg pipe7)TDAQ integration

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Timing TDAQ IntegrationL1: 2 CTP terms via one long large diameter air-core cable from each side (use ALFA integration solution)

Readout: Timing integration to be done via optomodule providing data from HPTDC board to standard ATLAS RODs (whichever ROD is used by Silicon system should work). One 12 channel HPTDC board required/per 8 channels of QUARTIC (each HPTDC board has 3 chips run at 80 MHz, Providing 4 channels each; two chips have 3 Q channels and a clock while the third has 2 Q’s a G and clock).

So the one GASTOF one QUARTIC option gives 48 timing readout channels/side while adding an extra QUARTIC gives 96/side. If we add the ADC that would give an ADC channel for each timing channel. So the minimal system (1Q+1G no ADC) has 96 total readout channels, while the full system would have (2Q+1G+ADC) 192+66= 258 channels

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Substantial progress in all phases of fast timing, including integrating trigger capabilities into fast timing detector/electronics

We have a prototype fast timing system for AFP that seems to be capable of ~10 ps resolution, validated with beam and laser tests

Significant improvements in lifetime by Nagoya/Hamamatsu ; also through UTA collaborations with Arradiance, Photonis, Photek on lifetime. Solution exists for modest integrated charge (few C/cm2), 10-20 C/cm2 seems achievable on a few year timescale.

In progress: final optimization and layout of detector, electronics, PMT; evaluating radiation tolerance/needs of all components

Timing detector not on critical path assuming ATLAS approves AFP in a timely manner and R&D, production funding is obtained

Conclusions