Picosecond timing with diamond detectors for the TOTEM experiment

The TOTEM upgrade programme focuses on improving the experiment's capability to explore and measure new physics in Central Diffractive processes thanks to the installation of proton-time-of-flight detectors in Roman Pots to eliminate the event pileup. Therefore the vertical Roman Pots will be equipped with timing detectors with ~50 ps resolution. For the time measurement diamond detectors are planned to be used. In this work I have developed offline algorithms for signal processing allowing to considerably improve the resolution of the time of flight measurement obtained earlier by my colleagues. The algorithms have been tested with data from a test beam measurement where signals from diamond detectors have been collected.