[Fraticelli Chiara] SiPM detector timing response study for the electron-ion collider
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be a new high luminosity large-scale and high polarization collider designed to investigate the QCD dynamics in the nucleons with unprecedented precision. It is planned to be built at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US. Through a dRICH prototype, the performance of Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPM), the baseline photo-sensor candidate for the dRICH was tested. The employed SiPM readout electronics chip, ALCOR, provides the time-of-hit measurement through the rollover, coarse and fine time contributions. In this dissertation, a study on the refinement of the Time Resolution of the Reference Timing system (owing to the fine…