Precision timing detectors for hadron colliders
Adi Bornheim (Caltech Pasadena, USA)

Current and future high energy physics particle colliders can provide instantaneous luminosities of 10^34 cm-2s-1 and above. The high center of mass energy of 10 TeV and beyond, the large number of simultaneous collisions of beam particles in the experiments and the very high beam crossing rates pose significant challenges. At the same time, the breadth of physics studies carried out at these colliders is expanding continuously, ranging from searches over precision physics measurements to heavy ion physics.

To detect and reconstruct physics events, the detectors must maximize the information they capture on the final state particles. Adi Bornheim will discuss how timing information with a precision of around a few 10 ps can aid the reconstruction of the physics events under such challenging conditions. He will present how the CMS detector operating at the LHC in CERN will be upgraded to exploit the precision timing capabilities of the calorimeter and by the inclusion of a dedicated MIP timing detector.