Position-Sensitive MCP-based Detectors with High Timing Resolution: Some Results and Perspectives

The microelectronic design and some results of experimental tests of three types of coordinate sensitive Micro-Channel-Plate (MCP)-based detectors with high timing properties are presented. The electrodynamic structures that could be used for the MCP fast signal readout (strips, delay lines and discrete pads) are always a compromise between the amplitude of the induced signal, propagation time delay, cross-talk and distortions of the signal at the output. In-lab tests of these structures and experimental tests of the detectors done with the beams of MIPs and with the alpha-source have shown the 130 microns spatial and 110 ps timing resolution obtained simultaneously for one detector

Determination of the number of wounded nucleons in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c

The charged particle multiplicity distributions measured by two experiments, WA97 and NA57, in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c have been analyzed in the framework of the Wounded Nucleon Model (WNM). We obtain a good description of the data within the centrality range of our samples. This allows us to make use of the measured multiplicities to estimate the number of wounded nucleons of the collision

Silicon pixel detectors for tracking in NA57

In this paper, after recalling the main features of the NA57 experiment, we describe its silicon pixel tracker. (9 refs)