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A new time-of-flight (ToF) system of the NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the extracted beam of the Super Hadron Synchrotron in CERN has been developed in 2019–2022 by the staff of the Laboratory of High-Energy Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The new ToF system is based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) technology. The previous system consisting of scintillation counters was substituted with the new ToF system. This paper presents the overview of the new NA61/SHINE ToF system.
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The results were obtained in the Laboratory of High-Energy Physics at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. We thank V.A. Matveev and M. Gadzitskii for support and interest in this work. Also thanks N. Gorbunov for his interest in this study and valuable comments concerning the content of this work, M. Gadzitskii for support and interest in this work, and M. Kuikh and P. Podlaski (University of Warsaw) and R. Shukevich and M. Kukhovich (University of Wroclaw) for help in putting the facility into operation.
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Babkin, V.A., Buzin, S.G., Burdyko, A.S. et al. Time-of-Flight System for Particle Identification in the NA61/SHINE Experiment in CERN. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 21, 121–130 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477124020043
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