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In view of a possible application as a charge-particle track readout for an Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC), the operating properties of THick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in pure low-pressure Helium were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 Marco Cortesi , John Yurkon , Andreas Stolz

We have developed a new design of a GEM-like detector with single-layer electrodes made of a resistive kapton. This detector can operate at gains close to 10E5 even in pure Ar and Ne and if transited to discharges at higher gains they, due…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , F. Pietropaolo , P. Picchi

The TOTEM experiment at LHC has chosen the triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology for its T2 telescope which will provide charged track reconstruction in the rapidity range 5.3<|eta|<6.5 and a fully inclusive trigger for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 S. Lami , G. Latino , E. Oliveri , L. Ropelewski , N. Turini

A wire GEM (WGEM) detector with a gas gap between meshes was constructed. The detector provides the amplification 5x10E5 for the gas mixture of Ar +20% CO2 at atmospheric pressure. As compared with well-known GEM detectors produced by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-26 B. M. Ovchinnikov , V. I. Razin , A. I. Reshetin , S. N. Filippov

The operation principle and preliminary results of a novel gas-avalanche patterned hole electron multiplier, the Thick-COBRA (THCOBRA), are presented. This micro-hole structure is derived from the THGEM and MHSP. Sub-millimeter diameter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-21 F. D. Amaro , C. Santos , J. F. C. A. Veloso , A. Breskin , R. Chechik , J. M. F. dos Santos

The Yale-Weizmann collaboration aims to develop a low-radioactivity (low-background) cryogenic noble liquid detector for Dark-Matter (DM) search in measurements to be performed deep underground as for example carried out by the XENON…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-06-11 M. Gai , D. N. McKinsey , K. Ni , D. A. R. Rubin , T. Wongjirad , R. Alon , A. Breskin , M. Cortesi , J. Miyamoto

A sealed high gas pressure detector working in pure argon is assembled. It consists of a 5 cm $\times$ 5 cm PCB THGEM (THick Gaseous Electron Multipliers). The detector structure and experimental setup are described. The performances under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-26 Yu-Ning Zhang , Qian Liu , Hong-Bang Liu , Yi-Gang Xie , Xiao-Rui Lyu , Shi Chen , Wen-Qian Huang , Dao-Jin Hong , Yang-Heng Zheng

The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector is one of promising particle and radiation detectors that has been improved greatly from previous gas detectors. The improvement includes better spatial resolutions, higher detection rate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-28 Kiadtisak Saenboonruang , Piyakul Kumphiranon , Kittipong Kulasri , Anawat Ritthirong

A prototype Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector is under construction for medical imaging purposes. A single thick GEM of size 10x10 cm^2 is assembled inside a square shaped air-tight box which is made of Perspex glass. In order to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-05 N. N. Mondal , S. Chattopadhyay , M. R. Dutta Mazumdar , A. K. Dubey , Y. P. Vioygi

A thick gas electron multiplier is considered for radiation-hard detectors (hadron calorimeter). There was carried out technological and design study to optimize the element structure. The measurements results and the next plans are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-30 V. Inshakov , V. Kryshkin , N. Kuzmin , V. Skvortsov , S. Sychkov , A. Sytin

Controlled etching of copper electrodes in Gas Electron Multiplier foils allows a reduction of the material budget by more than a factor of two for a triple-GEM detector. Detectors making use of thinned foils provide performances similar to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bondar , A. Buzulutskov , R. de Oliveira , L. Ropelewski , F. Sauli , L. Shekhtman

Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) have the potential of constituting thin, robust sampling elements in Digital Hadron Calorimetry (DHCAL) in future colliders. We report on recent beam studies of new single- and double-THGEM-like…

The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) has become a widely used technology for high-rate particle physics experiments like COMPASS, LHCb and are being used as the readout system for the upcoming upgrade version of other experiments such as ALICE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Promita Roy , Purba Bhattacharya , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar

The gas gain and energy resolution of single and double THGEM detectors (5{\times}5cm2 effective area) with mini-rims (rim is less than 10{\mu}m) were studied. The maximum gain can reach 5{\times}103 and 2{\times}105 for single and double…

The advancement of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector technology offers us different kinds of detectors with good spatial resolution and high rate capability and the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector is one of them. Typically GEM is made…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Roy , K. Nivedita G , A. Paul , S. Das , S. Biswas

One of the main features of two-phase detectors with electroluminescence (EL) gap being developed in our laboratory for dark matter search is the extensive use of THGEMs (Thick Gas Electron Multipliers). In various versions of the detector,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Alexander Bondar , Alexei Buzulutskov , Egor Frolov , Vladislav Oleynikov , Ekaterina Shemyakina , Andrey Sokolov

Gas detector are very light instrument used in high energy physics to measure the particle properties: position and momentum. Through high electric field is possible to use the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology to detect the charged…

We report on the manufacture of a first batch of approximately 2,000 Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) using 3M's fully automated roll to roll flexible circuit production line. This process allows low-cost, reproducible fabrication of a high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 P. S. Barbeau , J. I. Collar , J. D. Geissinger , J. Miyamoto , I. Shipsey , R. Yang

A prototype Dual Gain Multilayer Thick Gas Electron Multilyer (DG-M-THGEM) with an active area of 10 cm $\times$ 10 cm was manufactured aiming at the production of a large-volume active-target time projection chamber which can work under…

GEM are widely used as amplification stages in gaseous detectors exposed to high rates. The GEM consists of a polyimide foil which is coated by two thin copper layers. Charges collected into the holes or created during the amplification…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 Philip Hauer , Karl Flöthner , Dimitri Schaab , Jonathan Ottnad , Viktor Ratza , Markus Ball , Bernhard Ketzer