FASTER USE CASE
TIME OF FLIGHT AND POSITION MEASUREMENT USING A MICRO-CHANNEL PLATE WITH RESISTIVE POSITION READOUT
SUMMARY
Thanks to their excellent timing properties, micro-channel plates (MCPs) are often used to measure time of flight (TOF) of charged particles. If connected to proper anodes, they can also measure the position of the incident particles at their surface. The example bellow illustrates the use of such a device connected to a resistive anode readout system.
WHAT WILL YOU FIND IN THIS DOCUMENT ?
- An example of resistive anode coupled to a micro-channel plate,
- The principles of resistive anodes readout (i.e. charge division methods),
- How to calibrate the resistive anode image in terms of position referred to MCP front facehr module,
- How to integrate this device in the FASTER data acquisition and processing system.
PICTURES
The spatial resolution of such a process is about 200µmRMS, depending on MCP gain and incident particles types and energy. Here is a correted picture of a mask.
