Time Trap: A Detector with Picosecond Precision ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Design and optimisation of radiation resistant AC- and DC-coupled resistive LGADs"
New detector pinpoints the time and location of a particle hit with exquisite precision: 38 picoseconds and 15 micrometers.
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A new particle detector senses time differences of 38 picoseconds—in that time, light travels just a centimeter. This will allow us to peer into the heart of matter and perhaps find new forces of nature.
🎯 A picosecond is one trillionth of a second. In 38 picoseconds, light travels about 1.14 centimeters—slightly more than the width of your pinky finger.
🎬 Perhaps one day, a network of such detectors will form the basis of a ‘chronovisor’ that records events with picosecond detail.