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We further study the performance of single, double and triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors in pure noble gases at high pressures, in the range of 1-10 atm. We confirm that light noble gases, in particular He and its mixtures with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 V. Aulchenko , A. Bondar , A. Buzulutskov , L. Shekhtman , R. Snopkov , Yu. Tikhonov

In view of a possible extension of the forward CMS muon detector system and future LHC luminosity upgrades, Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) are an appealing technology. They can simultaneously provide precision tracking and fast trigger…

Performance of triple GEM prototypes in strong magnetic field has been evaluated bymeans of a muon beam at the H4 line of the SPS test area at CERN. Data have been reconstructedand analyzed offline with two reconstruction methods: the…

The new beam profile measurement for the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN is based on a single Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) with a 2D readout structure. This detector is very light (~0.4% X0), and measures horizontal and vertical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-20 Serge Duarte Pinto , Rhodri Jones , Leszek Ropelewski , Jens Spanggaard , Gerard Tranquille

THGEMs (THick Gas Electron Multiplier) of varying thickness, hole diameter and hole pitch have been studied. For a thinner-THGEM of thickness 0.2 mm, with hole diameter 0.2 mm, pitch 0.2 mm and narrow (5-10 {\mu}m) rim, the performance of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 H. B. Liu , Q. Liu , S. Chen , C. Nicholson , Y. G. Xie , Y. H. Zheng , Z. P. Zheng , J. G. Lu , L. Zhou , A. S. Tang , Y. D. Yang , Y. Dong , M. Li

We report on the properties of thick GEM-like (THGEM) electron multipliers made of 0.4 mm thick double-sided Cu-clad G-10 plates, perforated with a dense hexagonal array of 0.3 mm diameter drilled holes. Photon detectors comprising THGEMs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-04-11 R. Chechik , A. Breskin , C. Shalem

We report on the R&D effort in the design and construction of a large size Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) for the Proton Polarimeter Back Tracker (BT) of the Super Bigbite Spectrometer (SBS) in Hall A at Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-26 Kondo Gnanvo , Nilanga Liyanage , Vladimir Nelyubin , Kiadtisak Saenboonruang , Seth Sacher , Bogdan Wojtsekhowski

A study has been carried out to evaluate the performance stability of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) chamber prototypes in the laboratory using $^{55}$Fe radiation source with Argon and CO$_2$ gas mixture. This research focuses on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

The Multi-Chip-Module-Deposited (MCM-D) technique has been used to build hybrid pixel detector assemblies. This paper summarises the results of an analysis of data obtained in a test beam campaign at CERN. Here, single chip hybrids made of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 K. -H. Becks , P. Gerlach , C. Grah , P. Maettig , T. Rohe

In this work, a serial on-line cluster reconstruction technique based on FPGA technology was developed to compress experiment data and reduce the dead time of data transmission and storage. At the same time, X-ray imaging experiment based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-28 Hui-Yin Wu , He-Run Yang , Wei Zhang , Jian-Jin Zhou , Sheng-Ying Zhao , Chen-Gui Lu , Jun-Wei Zhang , Bi-Tao Hu , Yi Zhang , Wen-Quan Cao

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

A new gas detector prototype for the upgrade of the focal plane detector of the MAGNEX large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer has been developed and tested in view of the NUMEN project. It has been designed to operate at low gas pressure…

For its ease manufacturing, flexible geometry, and cheap manufacturing cost, the gas electron multiplier (GEM) detector can be used as an x-ray image sensor. For this purpose, we acquired relative detection efficiencies and suggested a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-13 Sukyoung Shin , Jaehoon Jung , Soonhyouk Lee

A GEM tracking detector with an extended drift region has been studied as part of an effort to develop new tracking detectors for future experiments at RHIC and for the Electron Ion Collider that is being planned for BNL or JLAB. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-24 B. Azmoun , B. DiRuzza , A. Franz , A. Kiselev , R. Pak , M. Phipps , M. L. Purschke , C. Woody

The ALICE experiment at LHC has planned to upgrade the TPC by replacing the MWPC with GEM based detecting elements to restrict the IBF to a tolerable value. However the variation of the gain as a function of physical parameters of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-21 Supriya Das

A large volume Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed as main tracking device at the International Linear Collider (ILC). Gas electron multipliers (GEMs) are studied as potential replacement of the conventional wire based gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Wienemann

While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced automated ECG interpretation, they still face two key limitations: (1) insufficient multimodal synergy between time series signals and visual ECG representations, and (2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiang Lan , Feng Wu , Kai He , Qinghao Zhao , Shenda Hong , Mengling Feng

Accurate and reliable measurements of three-dimensional surface structures are important for a broad range of technological and research applications, including materials science, nanotechnology, and biomedical research. Scanning helium…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-26 Aleksandar Radic , Sam Lambrick , Chenyang Zhao , Nick von Jeinsen , Andrew Jardine , David Ward , Paul Dastoor

We report the application of the resistive anode readout method on a two dimensional imaging GEM detector. The resistive anode consists of $6\times6$ cells with the cell size $6~\mathrm{mm}\times6~\mathrm{mm}$. New electronics and DAQ…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-06 Xu-Dong Ju , Ming-Yi Dong , Chuan-Xing Zhou , Jing Dong , Yu-Bin Zhao , Hong-Yu Zhang , Hui-Rong Qi , Qun Ou-Yang

We present a systematic investigation of the gain properties of a gas electron multiplier (GEM) foil in pure dimethyl ether (DME) at low pressures. The GEM is made from copper- clad liquid crystal polymer insulator (LCP-GEM) designed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-15 Y. Takeuchi , T. Tamagawa , T. Kitaguchi , S. Yamada , W. Iwakiri , F. Asami , A. Yoshikawa , K. Kaneko , T. Enoto , A. Hayato , T. Kohmura , the GEMS/XACT team