CPAD 2026 at Seattle

Session

RDC 11 Fast Timing

20 Oct 2026, 14:00

107 (Alder Hall)

227. Introduction

20/10/2026, 14:00

RDC 11 Fast Timing

17. Minimally Destructive, Fast Silicon Instrumentation for a Beam Velocity Monitor of Low-Intensity Semi-Relativistic Muon Bunches

Cici Hanna (Princeton University)

20/10/2026, 14:10

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Non-destructive beam instrumentation is an essential tool for accelerator operation, and a number of beam instrumentation techniques exist. However, conventional techniques are designed for bunches of $10^9-10^{11}$ particles, and lack the precision required to characterize low-intensity ($10^4-10^6$) muon bunches. Instrumentation for this regime is required for the development and operation...

154. Time-to-Digital Conversion of Cherenkov Radiation using Photonic Techniques

Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

20/10/2026, 14:30

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Fast timing detectors are an essential element of a particle physics experiment. Fast timing provides an additional handle on the spatiotemporal distribution of particles that can be used to achieve effective particle identification, improved position reconstruction, and separation of spatially overlapping physics processes. Traditional timing detector methods are often constrained by upper...

114. Ultrafast diamond detectors for HENP and Plasma Physics

Andreas Gsponer (University of California Santa Cruz (US))

20/10/2026, 14:50

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Single-crystal diamond is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with attractive material properties for fast timing detectors. The electron and hole saturation velocities exceed those of silicon, and thanks to the wide bandgap, the leakage current after irradiation is negligible and diamond detectors can even be operated at elevated temperatures (>300 °C). Recently, the exceptional breakdown field and...

88. Using fast-timing to determine track position, time, and angles

Victor Turbiner (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

20/10/2026, 15:10

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Particle trackers at current and future colliders are increasingly incorporating precision timing. The ATLAS HGTD and CMS MTD, built for the HL-LHC, target time resolutions below 50 ps, and trackers for a future muon collider or 10 TeV hadron collider will require similar or better timing resolution with pixel pitches in the tens of microns.

Using device-level simulations, we show that an...

167. Performance studies of a low-radius time-of-flight particle ID detector concept with silicon LGADs

Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii Manoa)

22/10/2026, 14:00

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RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

In a magnetic field, particles with low transverse momentum (typically a few hundred MeV) follow a helical trajectory that curls within the detector, leading to one or multiple ‘loops’ of the same particle. Particle ID detectors are typically situated at large radii above > 50 cm, and cannot provide measurements for low-pTtracks.
As the sensor technology for precision timing of single...

62. Eos as the SNS

Tanner Kaptanoglu

22/10/2026, 14:20

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Eos is a currently operating four-tonne fiducial optical detector located at UC Berkeley, designed as a testbed for next-generation “hybrid” neutrino detector technology. These hybrid detectors exploit fast timing photodetectors, novel scintillators, and spectral photon sorting to distinguish Cherenkov from scintillation light, enabling improved event reconstruction and particle...

95. Time-Domain Simulation of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers using Coupled Mode Theory

Luke Wanner (Colorado School of Mines)

22/10/2026, 14:40

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Microwave SQUID Multiplexers enable the simultaneous readout of many micro-calorimeter detectors through the use of frequency domain multiplexing via superconducting resonators inductively coupled to RF-SQUIDs. These resonators are frequency modulated through flux-ramp modulation, which sets the effective sampling rate of the detector. The slew rate of the modulation is primarily limited by...

60. From Thousands of CPU-Hours to Seconds: Fast Generative Models for Gravitational-Wave Populations

Rhea Senthil Kumar (University of California, San Diego)

22/10/2026, 15:00

RDC 11 Fast Timing

Presentation

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations provide a unique probe of the underlying massive-star population, but extracting this information requires modeling how massive stars evolve into merging compact binaries across cosmic time. Forward population-synthesis frameworks that couple binary evolution to cosmic star-formation and metallicity histories are therefore needed to connect observed merger...