Picosecond-Resolution Timing

Papers

• The Timing Properties of a Picosecond MCP-PMT Measured at the Fermilab MTEST Test Beam,
  Gary Drake (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• New Developments in Fast-Sampling Analog Readout of MCP-Based Large-Area Picosecond Time -of-Flight Detectors,
  Fukun Tang (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• Transmission-Line Readout with Good Time and Space Resolutions for a Planicon MCP-PMT,
  Fukun Tang et al.
  Poster presented at the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP),
  Parallel Session B6 - Friday 19 September 2007
  Prague Czech Republic, Sept., 2007. (PDF)


• Development of Front-End Electronics for Picosecond Resolution TOF Detectors,
  Fukun Tang et al.
  Poster at the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP),
  Prague, Czech Republic; Sept.,2007. (PPT)


• MCP-PMT Anode Development for Picosecond-Resolution Time-of-flight Detectors,
  T.Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum and G. Drake, Submitted to NSSC/MIC IEEE, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 27-Nov 3, 2007 (PDF)


• Developing Large-area Psec Timing: The MCP Return-PathProblem and a Proposed Solution,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum and G. Drake, (IEEE06, San Diego, CA) July 2006 (PDF)


• Development of a Readout System for Large Scale Time-of-Flight Systems with Picosecond Resolution,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, J. van Santen, K. Byrum and G. Drake,
  (IEEE06, San Diego, CA) 19 May 2006 (PDF, DOC)


• Development of a Picosecond-Resolution TDC for Large Scale Time-of-Flight Systems,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum, G. Drake,
  (IEEE06, San Diego, CA ), 19 May 2006. Abstract (PPT) Paper (PPT) )


• Psec TOF for Particle Identification at HEP Colliders,
  T. Credo, H. Frisch, R. Schroll, H. Sanders, and F. Tang,
  IEEE04, Rome, Italy 1 Nov. 2004 (DOC, PDF) Poster (JPEG) )

• Potential Advantages of Digitally Sampling Scintillation Pulses in Timing Determination in PET,
  Qingguo Xie et al. TNS-00534-2008, Submitted to IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, Aug. 2008 (PDF)


• A Multi-Threshold Method for TOF-PET Signal Processing,
  Heejong Kim (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• Time of Flight in PET Using Fast Timing and Leading Edge
  Fit Optimization,
  Daniel Herbst (IEEE08, October, 2008; Dresden Germany) (PDF)


• Electronics development for fast-timing PET detectors: The multi-threshold discriminator Time of Flight PET system,
  Jialie Lin, Octavia Biris, Chin-Tu Chen, Woon-Seng Choong, Henry Frisch, Chien-Min Kao, William W. Moses, Fukun Tang, Qingguo Xie, Lin Zhou
  SORMA, Berkeley CA, May, 2008 (PPT)


• Potential Advantages of Digitally Sampling Scintillation Pulses in Time Determination in PET,
  Q. Xie, C.-M. Kao, X. Wang, N. Guo, C. Zhu, H. Frisch, W.W. Moses, C.T. Chen, NSSC/MIC IEEE, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 27-Nov 3, 2007 ( PDF)

• Creating an Audio Integrator,
  Matt McMahon, 22 August 2008 (PDF)


• Design and Simulation of a High Bandwidth Current-to-Voltage Buffer for Analog Sampling,
  Andrew Floren, August 2008 (DOC)


• Picosecond Time-of-Flight System Clock Distribution Subsystem,
  John T. Anderson, 15 August 2007 (DOC)


• Stability and cost of time references from Symmetricom,
  Jean-Francois Genat (DOC)


• 50 GS/sec Block Sampler Demo,
  Jean-Francois Genat (DOC)


• A Prototype Data Acquisition Chip for Large-area, Picosecond Resolution, Time-of-Flight Detectors,
  J. van Santen, Senior Honors Thesis, 16 May 2006 (PDF, LaTeX Source - gzipped)


• Picosecond Timing with Cherenkov Light in a ``Head-on'' Geometry,
  R. Schroll, H. Frisch, June 2004 (gzipped Postscript)

• Pico-second Time-of-Flight Detector Electronics Development Proposal, T. Credo, H.Frisch, H. Sanders, F. Tang, K. Byrum and G. Drake, Submitted to the DOE ADR program, 15 Dec. 2005 .(PDF)

• The first version Buffered Large Analog Bandwidth (BLAB1) ASIC for high luminosity collider and extensive radio neutrino detectors,
  Gary S. Varner, Larry L. Ruckman, Andrew Wong, Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods (LINK)
• Link to LABRADOR Chip documentation, Gary Varner, The University of Hawaii

• Link to Photec Website: Technical papers listed on page include "Picosecond Time Response Characteristics of Micro-Channel Plate PMT Detectors" and others concerning fast time.
• Timing and Jitter Measurements with CMOS Circuits, K.A. Jenkins (IBM), 7 May 2007 (PDF)
• A 96-Channel FPGA-Based Time-to-Digital Converter (Draft), 1 Feb. 2005 (PDF, LaTeX, Postscript)
• A 5-ps TOF-counter with an MCP-PMT, K. Inami, N. Kishimoto, Y. Enari, M. Nagamine, T. Ohshima (Nagoya U.)2006. 6pp.Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A560:303-308,2006.(LINK)
• Cross-talk of a multi-anode PMT and attainment of a a sigma approx 10-ps TOF counter, Y. Enari et al. 2005. 14pp.(LINK)