Preliminary beam test results for the TIMESPOT project

Future high luminosity particle colliders will pose severe requirements on vertex detectors in terms of space resolution and radiation hardness. The significantly increased pile-up conditions in future high luminosity particle colliders will require unprecedented timing performance with resolutions down to a few tens of picoseconds. The TIMESPOT (TIME and SPace real-time Operating Tracker) project proposes an innovative radiation resistant tracking system able to combine high accuracy time and position measurements. The target is to achieve a time resolution below $50ps$ with a pixel size of 55 μm × 55 μm. In this contribution, some preliminary results on the performances of this sensor technology are presented.