4DPHOTON: Beyond Light Imaging: High-Rate Single-Photon Detection in Four Dimensions

The 4DPHOTON project aims to develop and construct a photon imaging detector with unprecedented performance. The proposed device will be capable of detecting fluxes of single-photons up to one billion photons per second, over areas of several square centimetres, and will measure - for each photon - position and time simultaneously with resolutions better than ten microns and few tens of picoseconds, respectively. 
With its excellent granularity, timing resolution, rate capability and compactness, this detector will represent a new paradigm for the realisation of future Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors, capable of achieving high efficiency particle identification in environments with very high particle multiplicities, exploiting time-association of the photon hits.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Michael Campbell

Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€ 

EU funding: 1.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 368 k€

1 June 2019 - 31 May 2024