Potential Use of State-of-the-Art TDCs for Particle Identification in Particle Physics Experiments

Abstract

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are instruments used to measure time intervals from digital signals accurately. They play an essential role in areas such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Positron Emission To-mography (PET) [1] and Particle Physics Experiments (PPE) [2]. Particularly, PPE involves the identification of particles resulting from collisions in accelerators. The estimation is carried out by measuring their Time of Flight (ToF) and deposited charge in the scintillator materials, becoming a radiation detector, as observed in Fig. 1.