Beam Test with a GridGEM TPC Prototype Module
Instrumentation and Detectors
2012-03-01 v1
Abstract
The International Large Detector (ILD) --a detector concept for the International Linear Collider (ILC)-- foresees a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as its main tracking detector. Currently, the R&D efforts for such a TPC focus on studies using a large prototype that can accommodate up to seven read-out modules which are comparable to the ones that would be used in the final ILD TPC. The DESY TPC group has developed such a module using GEMs for the gas amplification, which are mounted on thin ceramic frames. The module design and first results of a test beam campaign are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.6510,
title = {Beam Test with a GridGEM TPC Prototype Module},
author = {Ralf Diener and Ties Behnke and Stefano Caiazza and Isa Heinze and Volker Prahl and Christoph Rosemann and Oliver Schäfer and Jan Timmermans and Robert Volkenborn and Klaus Zenker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6510},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6 pages, 11 figures, prepared for LCWS 2011 proceedings