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Performance of the GridPix detector quad

Instrumentation and Detectors 2020-01-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A gaseous pixel readout module with four GridPix chips, called the quad, has been developed as a building block for a large time projection chamber readout plane. The quad module has dimensions 39.6 mm ×\times 28.38 mm and an active surface coverage of 68.9%. The GridPix chip consists of a Timepix3 chip with integrated amplification grid and have a high efficiency to detect single ionisation electrons, which enable to make a precise track position measurement. A quad module was installed in a small time projection chamber and measurements of 2.5 GeV electrons were performed at the ELSA accelerator in Bonn, where a silicon telescope was used to provide a reference track. The error on the track position measurement, both in the pixel plane and drift direction, is dominated by diffusion. The quad was designed to have minimum electrical field inhomogeneities and distortions, achieving systematics of better than 13 μ\mum in the pixel plane. The resolution of the setup is 41 μ\mum, where the total systematic error of the quad detector is 24 μ\mum.

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@article{arxiv.2001.01540,
  title  = {Performance of the GridPix detector quad},
  author = {Cornelis Ligtenberg and Yevgen Bilevych and Klaus Desch and Harry van der Graaf and Markus Gruber and Fred Hartjes and Kevin Heijhoff and Jochen Kaminski and Peter M. Kluit and Naomi van der Kolk and Gerhard Raven and Tobias Schiffer and Jan Timmermans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.01540},
  year   = {2020}
}

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To be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A

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