Particle identification system for the Super Charm–Tau Factory at Novosibirsk

Abstract The Super Charm-Tau (SCT) Factory is a proposed electron-positron collider in Novosibirsk with a peak luminosity of 1 0 35 cm − 1 s − 1 operating in the energy range between 2and 6  GeV. The interaction region should be equipped by an excellent universal particle detector meeting the requirements of broad physics program of the experiment. Research and development for all detector subsystems is currently underway. Particle identification (PID) system of the detector is required to provide the state-of-the-art level of  μ / π separation for the particle momenta up to 1 . 2 GeV∕c . The following options for the PID system are considered in this paper: focusing aerogel ring imaging Cherenkov (FARICH) detector composed of 4-layer aerogel tiles, threshold Cherenkov counters based on aerogel shifter photomultiplier (ASHIPH), and time-of-flight (ToF) detector combined with the time-of-propagation (ToP) approach providing a time resolution better than  30 ps . Assessment of the charged particle separation performance for these options based on simulation and prototype tests results is presented.