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Probing anomalous $WW\gamma$ Triple Gauge Bosons Coupling at LHeC

The precision measurement of the $WW\gamma$ vertex at the future Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) at CERN is discussed in this paper. We propose to measure this vertex in the $e^{-} p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}j$ channel as a complement to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Ruibo Li , Xiao-Min Shen , Kai Wang , Tao Xu , Liangliang Zhang , Guohuai Zhu

Performance of a Triple-GEM Demonstrator in $pp$ Collisions at the CMS Detector

After the Phase-2 high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the collision rate and therefore the background rate will significantly increase, particularly in the high $\eta$ region. To improve both the tracking and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-08 M. Abbas , M. Abbrescia , H. Abdalla , A. Abdelalim , S. AbuZeid , A. Agapitos , A. Ahmad , A. Ahmed , W. Ahmed , C. Aimè , C. Aruta , I. Asghar , P. Aspell , C. Avila , J. Babbar , Y. Ban , R. Band , S. Bansal , L. Benussi , V. Bhatnagar , M. Bianco , S. Bianco , K. Black , L. Borgonovi , O. Bouhali , A. Braghieri , S. Braibant , S. Butalla , S. Calzaferri , M. Caponero , J. Carlson , F. Cassese , N. Cavallo , S. S. Chauhan , S. Colafranceschi , A. Colaleo , A. Conde Garcia , M. Dalchenko , A. De Iorio , G. De Lentdecker , D. Dell Olio , G. De Robertis , W. Dharmaratna , S. Dildick , B. Dorney , R. Erbacher , F. Fabozzi , F. Fallavollita , A. Ferraro , D. Fiorina , E. Fontanesi , M. Franco , C. Galloni , P. Giacomelli , S. Gigli , J. Gilmore , M. Gola , M. Gruchala , A. Gutierrez , R. Hadjiiska , T. Hakkarainen , J. Hauser , K. Hoepfner , M. Hohlmann , H. Hoorani , T. Huang , P. Iaydjiev , A. Irshad , A. Iorio , F. Ivone , W. Jang , J. Jaramillo , A. Juodagalvis , E. Juska , B. Kailasapathy , T. Kamon , Y. Kang , P. Karchin , A. Kaur , H. Kaur , H. Keller , H. Kim , J. Kim , S. Kim , B. Ko , A. Kumar , S. Kumar , N. Lacalamita , J. S. H. Lee , A. Levin , Q. Li , F. Licciulli , L. Lista , K. Liyanage , F. Loddo , M. Luhach , M. Maggi , Y. Maghrbi , N. Majumdar , K. Malagalage , S. Malhotra , S. Martiradonna , C. McLean , J. Merlin , M. Misheva , G. Mocellin , L. Moureaux , A. Muhammad , S. Muhammad , S. Mukhopadhyay , M. Naimuddin , S. Nuzzo , R. Oliveira , P. Paolucci , I. C. Park , L. Passamonti , G. Passeggio , A. Peck , A. Pellecchia , N. Perera , L. Petre , H. Petrow , D. Piccolo , D. Pierluigi , G. Raffone , M. Rahmani , F. Ramirez , A. Ranieri , G. Rashevski , B. Regnery , M. Ressegotti , C. Riccardi , M. Rodozov , E. Romano , C. Roskas , B. Rossi , P. Rout , J. D. Ruiz , A. Russo , A. Safonov , A. K. Sahota , D. Saltzberg , G. Saviano , A. Shah , A. Sharma , R. Sharma , T. Sheokand , M. Shopova , F. M. Simone , J. Singh , U. Sonnadara , E. Starling , B. Stone , J. Sturdy , G. Sultanov , Z. Szillasi , D. Teague , D. Teyssier , T. Tuuva , M. Tytgat , I. Vai , N. Vanegas , R. Venditti , P. Verwilligen , W. Vetens , A. K. Virdi , P. Vitulo , A. Wajid , D. Wang , K. Wang , I. J. Watson , N. Wickramage , D. D. C. Wickramarathna , S. Yang , U. Yang , Y. Yang , J. Yongho , I. Yoon , Z. You , I. Yu , S. Zaleski

Combined readout of a triple-GEM detector

Optical readout of GEM based devices by means of high granularity and low noise CMOS sensors allows to obtain very interesting tracking performance. Space resolution of the order of tens of $\mu$m were measured on the GEM plane along with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 Vasile C. Antochi , Elisabetta Baracchini , Gianluca Cavoto , Emanuele Di Marco , Michela Marafini , Giovanni Mazzitelli , Davide Pinci , Francesco Renga , Sandro Tomassini , Cecilia Voena

Developments and the preliminary tests of Resistive GEMs manufactured by a screen printing technology

We report promising initial results obtained with new resistive-electrode GEM (RETGEM) detectors manufactured, for the first time, using screen printing technology. These new detectors allow one to reach gas gains nearly as high as with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-12-10 B. Clark , A. G. Agocs , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , Pietropaolo , Picchi

A Large area GEM Detector Using an improved Self-stretch Technique

A GEM detector with an effective area of 30*30 cm2 has been constructed using an improved self-stretch technique, which enables an easy and fast GEM assembling. The design and assembling of the detector is described. Results from tests of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Wenhao You , Yi Zhou , Cheng Li , Hongfang Chen , Ming Shao , Yongjie Sun , Zebo Tang , Jianbei Liu

Rate capability of large-area triple-GEM detectors and new foil design for the innermost station, ME0, of the CMS endcap muon system

To extend the acceptance of the CMS muon spectrometer to the region 2.4 $<|\eta|<$ 2.8, stacks of triple-GEM chambers, forming the ME0 station, are planned for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade. These large-area micro-pattern gaseous detectors must…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-25 Michele Bianco , Francesco Fallavollita , Davide Fiorina , Antonello Pellecchia , Luis Felipe Ramirez Garcia , Nicole Rosi , Piet Verwilligen

First results of spherical GEMs

We developed a method to make GEM foils with a spherical geometry. Tests of this procedure and with the resulting spherical GEMs are presented. Together with a spherical drift electrode, a spherical conversion gap can be formed. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-31 Serge Duarte Pinto , Matteo Alfonsi , Ian Brock , Gabriele Croci , Eric David , Rui de Oliveira , Leszek Ropelewski , Miranda van Stenis , Hans Taureg , Marco Villa

High granularity tracker based on a Triple-GEM optically read by a CMOS-based camera

The detection of photons produced during the avalanche development in gas chambers has been the subject of detailed studies in the past. The great progresses achieved in last years in the performance of micro-pattern gas detectors on one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Michela Marafini , Vincenzo Patera , Davide Pinci , Alessio Sarti , A. Sciubba , Eleuterio Spiriti

Layout and Assembly Technique of the GEM Chambers for the Upgrade of the CMS First Muon Endcap Station

Triple-GEM detector technology was recently selected by CMS for a part of the upgrade of its forward muon detector system as GEM detectors provide a stable operation in the high radiation environment expected during the future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-12 Aashaq Shah , CMS-Muon Collaboration

A TPC with Triple-GEM Gas Amplification and TimePix Readout

We present measurements with a GEM based TPC prototypes and the TimePix CMOS ASIC as charge collecting anode. Tests with a small prototype were performed in a 5 GeV electron beam at DESY. Different GEM orientations and geometries were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-02 U. Renz

Development of Thick-foil and Fine-pitch GEMs with a Laser Etching Technique

We have produced thick-foil and fine-pitch gas electron multipliers (GEMs) using a laser etching technique. To improve production yield we have employed a new material, Liquid Crystal Polymer, instead of polyimide as an insulator layer. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-07 T. Tamagawa , A. Hayato , F. Asami , K. Abe , S. Iwamoto , S. Nakamura , A. Hayato , T. Iwahashi , S. Konami , H. Hamagaki , Y. L. Yamaguchi , H. Tawara , K. Makishima

Progress on large area GEMs

In 2008, a triple GEM detector prototype with an area of ~2000 cm2 has been constructed, based on foils of 66*66 cm. GEMs of such dimensions had not been made before, and innovations to the existing technology were introduced to build this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-12-17 Serge Duarte Pinto , Marco Villa , Matteo Alfonsi , Ian Brock , Gabriele Croci , Eric David , Rui de Oliveira , Leszek Ropelewski , Miranda van Stenis

Study of the characteristics of GEM detectors for the future FAIR experiment CBM

Characteristics of triple GEM detector have been studied systematically. The variation of the effective gain and energy resolution of GEM with variation of the applied voltage has been measured with Fe55 X-ray source for different gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Biswas , A. Abuhoza , U. Frankenfeld , J. Hehner , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , M. Traeger , S. Colafranceschi , A. Marinov , A. Sharma

A Prototype Combination TPC Cherenkov Detector with GEM Readout for Tracking and Particle Identification and its Potential Use at an Electron Ion Collider

A prototype detector is being developed which combines the functions of a Time Projection Chamber for charged particle tracking and a Cherenkov detector for particle identification. The TPC consists of a 10x10x10 cm3 drift volume where the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-18 Craig Woody , Babak Azmoun , Richard Majka , Michael Phipps , Martin Purschke , Nikolai Smirnov

Investigation of the stability in the performance of triple GEM detectors for High Energy Physics experiments

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is one of the mostly used gaseous detectors in the High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. GEMs are widely used as tracking devices due to their high-rate handling capability and good position resolution. An…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-23 S. Mandal , S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Gope , S. Dhani , A. C. Hegde , M. Chatterjee , S. Das , S. Biswas

Results on Elastic Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 510$ GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC

We report results on an elastic cross section measurement in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=510$ GeV, obtained with the Roman Pot setup of the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-08 STAR Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , E. C. Aschenauer , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , V. Bairathi , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , R. Bellwied , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , S. R. Bhosale , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , J. D. Brandenburg , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , I. M. Deppner , A. Dhamija , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , C. Fu , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , T. Gao , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamed , Y. Han , S. Harabasz , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , N. Herrmann , L. Holub , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. Ji , J. Jia , C. Jin , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Khanal , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , D. Kincses , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , N. Lewis , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , R. S. Longacre , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , D. Mallick , R. Manikandhan , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , G. McNamara , O. Mezhanska , K. Mi , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , M. I. Nagy , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , R. Pak , S. Pal , A. Pandav , T. Pani , A. Paul , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , B. R. Pokhrel , M. Posik , T. Protzman , V. Prozorova , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , C. W. Robertson , M. Robotkova , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , P. Roy Chowdhury , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , F-J. Seck , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. S. Shi , Y. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stefaniak , D. J. Stewart , B. Stringfellow , Y. Su , A. A. P. Suaide , M. Sumbera , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , S. Trentalange , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , T. Truhlar , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , I. Vassiliev , V. Verkest , F. Videbæk , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , D. Wielanek , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , J. Wu , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , Y. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , M. Zhao , J. Zhou , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Central Production with Tagged Forward Protons and the Star Detector at RHIC

We describe a setup which will allow extend the physics reach of the STAR detector at RHIC to include the measurement of very forward protons. Tagging on very forward protons, detected by the Roman Pots at RHIC energies, selects processes,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 Wlodek Guryn , STAR Collaboration

Development of Large Area GEM Chambers

The High Energy Physics group of the University of Texas at Arlington Physics Department has been developing Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors for use as the sensitive gap detector in digital hadron calorimeters (DHCAL) for the future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-20 J. Yu , E. Baldelomar , K. Park , S. Park , M. Sosebee , N. Tran , A. P. White

Optical quality assurance of GEM foils

An analysis software was developed for the high aspect ratio optical scanning system in the Detec- tor Laboratory of the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki Institute of Physics. The system is used e.g. in the quality assurance of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-25 T. Hildén , E. Brücken , J. Heino , M. Kalliokoski , A. Karadzhinova , R. Lauhakangas , E. Tuominen , R. Turpeinen

Progress in Developing Hybrid RPCs: GEM-like Detectors with Resistive Electrodes

We have recently developed an innovative detector of photons and charged particles: a GEM-like gaseous amplification structure with resistive electrodes instead of commonly used metallic ones. This novel detector combines the best property…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 P. Fonte , P. Martinengo , E. Nappi , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov