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Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is a cutting edge Micro Pattern Gaseous detector (MPGD) technology suitable as tracking device in high rate Heavy-Ion (HI) experiments for their good spatial resolution and most importantly high rate handling…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

Optical readout of Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) provides very interesting performances and has been proposed for different applications in particle physics. In particular, thanks to its good efficiency in the keV energy range, it is being…

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

Thick GEM-like (THGEM) electrodes are robust, high gain gaseous electron multipliers, economically-manufactured by standard drilling and etching of thin printed circuit board or other materials. Their operation and structure are similar to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Chechik , M. Cortesi , A. Breskin , D. Vartsky , D. Bar , V. Dangendorf

The construction of a micro-pattern gas detector of dimensions 40x10 cm**2 is described. Two gas electron multiplier foils (GEM) provide the internal amplification stages. A two-layer readout structure was used, manufactured in the same…

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

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

We study the performance of two-phase avalanche detectors based on Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and operated in an electron-avalanching mode in Ar and Xe. Emission, gain, energy resolution and stability characteristics of the detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bondar , A. Buzulutskov , A. Grebenuk , D. Pavlyuchenko , R. Snopkov , Y. Tikhonov

The properties of thick GEM-like (TGEM) gaseous electron multipliers, operated at 1-740 Torr are presented. They are made of a G-10 plate, perforated with millimeter-scale diameter holes. In single-multiplier elements, effective gains of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Chechik , A. Breskin , C. Shalem , D. Moermann

We measured the properties of a novel combination of two Gas Electron Multipliers with a Micromegas for use as amplification devices in high-rate gaseous time projection chambers. The goal of this design is to minimize the buildup of space…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 S. Aiola , R. J. Ehlers , S. Gu , J. W. Harris , R. Majka , J. D. Mulligan , M. Oliver , J. Schambach , N. Smirnov

In given article preliminary results of the research of the electron multiplication in MPGD are presented at a high level of alpha-particles background. This work has expanded borders of understanding of the streamer mode nature. It is seen…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-09-16 V. I. Razin , A. I. Reshetin

THick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) are robust and high gain Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors which are economically manufactured by standard drilling and etching of thin printed circuit boards. In this paper, we present our recent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-20 Promita Roy , Purba Bhattacharya , Vishal Kumar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Sandip Sarkar

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is one of the devices for gas amplification and available as an amplification part of detectors for many experiments. A GEM with a 50 $\mu m$ thick insulator is popular and widely used in many experimental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-20 Tomohisa Ogawa , Yumi Aoki

At NISER-IoP detector laboratory an initiative is taken to build and test Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors for ALICE experiment. The optimisation of the gas flow rate and the long-term stability test of the GEM detector are…

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

Large area Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors have been the preferred choice for tracking devices in major nuclear and particle physics experiments. Uniformity over surface of the detector in terms of gain, energy resolution and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 Rajendra Nath Patra , Rama N. Singaraju , Saikat Biswas , Zubayer Ahammed , Tapan K. Nayak , Yogendra P. Viyogi

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

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 describe the first tests with a new proportional gas detector. Its geometry consists in slits opened in a copper metallized kapton foil with 30 micron anode strips suspended in these openings. In this way the multiplication process is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Claude Labbe , F. Gomez , T. Nunez , A. Pazos , P. Vazquez