MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS OF TIME-OF-FLIGHT, POSITION AND ENERGY DEPOSIT OF IONIZING PARTICLES BY SOLID-STATE DETECTORS

A telescope made of silicon strip detectors performing simultaneous me asurements of position, time and energy deposit has been constructed a nd operated. The telescope has been tested with a pion beam of 4 GeV/c at the CERN Proton Synchrotron. The intrinsic time resolution of the telescope measured in the beam test is 61+/-7 ps. This unprecedented t ime resolution is achieved by the multiple sampling of the time of fli ght. Future developments of this telescope aiming at the construction of a new, analogous instrument of large sensitive area are considered (LATIN project).