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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

We have previously reported on the construction and successful operation of the novel double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

We present design and construction of a large low-mass Triple-GEM detector prototype for forward tracking at a future Electron-Ion Collider. In this environment, multiple scattering of forward and backward tracks must be minimized so that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 Marcus Hohlmann , Matthew Bomberger , Stefano Colafranceschi , Francisco Jimenez , Mehdi Rahmani , Aiwu Zhang

The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is a new age detector, which can handle the high flux of particles. The GEM foil, which is constructed using 50$\mu$m highly insulating foil (Kapton/Apical) coated with 5$\mu$m layers of copper, on both…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-10 Asar Ahmed , Ashok Kumar , Md. Naimuddin , Michal Babij , Piotr Bielowka

The use of gaseous Time Projection Chambers enables the detection and the detailed study of rare events due to particles interactions with the atoms of the gas with energy releases as low as a few keV. Due to this capability, these…

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

Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been chosen as the main tracking system in several high-flux and high repetition rate experiments. These include on-going experiments such as ALICE and future experiments such as PANDA at FAIR and ILC.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 Purba Bhattacharya , Bedangadas Mohanty , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Hugo Natal da Luz

A large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019-2020, the LHC will deliver Pb beams colliding at an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-09 Piotr Gasik

We report on the development of a large-volume, wide field-of-view time projection chamber (TPC) for X-ray polarimetry, featuring a triple-GEM amplification stage and optical readout. Originally developed within the CYGNO program for…

Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) are extensively employed in modern high-energy and nuclear Physics experiments because of their excellent spatial resolution, high rate capability, and operational stability. Among these, the Gas Electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-29 Sachin Rana , Md. Kaosor Ali Mondal , Poojan Angiras , Amal Sarkar

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

Gas Electron Multiplication technology is finding more and more applications in beam instrumentation and at CERN these detectors have recently been adapted for use in transverse profile measurements at several of our facilities. In the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-12 Serge Duarte Pinto , Jens Spanggaard

The characteristics of triple GEM detectors have been studied systematically by using cosmic ray muons. The minimum ionizing particle (MIP) spectra has been taken for different GEM voltage setting. Efficiency of GEM detector has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Biswas , D. J. Schmidt , A. Abuhoza , U. Frankenfeld , C. Garabatos , J. Hehner , V. Kleipa , T. Morhardt , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , J. Wiechula

For the International Large Detector (ILD) at the planned International Linear Collider (ILC) a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is foreseen as the main tracking detector. To achieve the required point resolution, Micro-Pattern Gaseous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-26 Ties Behnke , Ralf Diener , Ulrich Einhaus , Uwe Krämer , Paul Malek , Oliver Schäfer , Mengqing Wu

Micro-pattern gas detectors, such as the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) and the Micromegas need narrow high density anode readout elements to achieve good spatial resolution. A high-density anode readout would require an unmanageable number…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-19 M. S. Dixit , J. Dubeau , J. -P. Martin , K. Sachs

The triple GEM detector is a micropattern gas detector which consists of a primary ionisation gap and three consecutive gas electron multiplier (GEM) foils. A printed circuit board with readout strips detects the current induced by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ziegler , P. Sievers , U. Straumann

The Gaseous Electron Multiplier-based Time Projection Chamber (GEM-TPC) in TWIN configuration for particle tracking has been consolidated after extensive investigations in different facilities to study its tracking performance. The most…

We have developed a novel technique for the measurement of the size of avalanche fluctuations of gaseous detectors using a gating device (gating foil) prepared for the time projection chamber in the international linear collider experiment…