We report on the development of a GEM-based TPC prototype for the PANDA experiment. The design and requirements of this device will be illustrated, with particular emphasis on the properties of the recently tested GEM-detector, the characterization of the read-out electronics and the development of the tracking software that allows to evaluate the GEM-TPC data.
@article{arxiv.1004.4079,
title = {The PANDA GEM-based TPC Prototype},
author = {L. Fabbietti and H. Angerer and R. Beck and M. Berger and F. Böhmer and K. T. Brinkmann and P. Bühler and M. Danner and S. Dørheim and C. Funke and F. Cusanno and J. Hehner and A. Heinz and M. Henske and C. Höppner and D. Kaiser and B. Ketzer and I. Konorov and J. Kunkel and M. Lang and J. Marton and S. Neubert and S. Paul and A. Schmah and C. Schmidt and R. Schmitz and S. Schwab and D. Soyk and K. Suzuki and U. Thoma and M. Vandenbroucke and B. Voss and D. Walter and Q. Weitzel and E. Widmann and A. Winnebeck and L. Wörner and H. G. Zaunick and X. Zhang and J. Zmeskal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4079},
year = {2016}
}