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Gas electron multiplier(GEM) detector is used in Cosmic Muon Scattering Tomography and neutron imaging in the last decade. In this work, a triple GEM device with an effective readout area of 10 cm X 10 cm is developed, and an experiment of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-04 Wu Hui-Yin , Zhao Sheng-Ying , Wang Xiao-Dong , Zhang Xian-Ming , Qi Hui-Rong , Zhang Wei , Wu Ke-Yan , Hu Bi-Tao , Zhang Yi

Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is one of the main tracking systems for many current and future collider experiments at RHIC and LHC. It has a capability to measure the space points of charged tracks for good momentum resolution as well as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 K. Dehmelt , P. Garg , T. K. Hemmick , A. Milov , E. Shulga , V. Zakharov

This works reports on gaseous detectors developments made in the frame of the EXO double-beta decay experiment. LEM (Large Electron Multiplication) are electron amplification grids based on GEM. They were developed in Neuchatel and showed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-06-12 Patrick Weber

In this work, a fast method of vertex reconstructing for incident ions in GEM detectors was proposed. As inspired by the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), the time information of the consecutive signal samples from Front End Electronics (FEE)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 Huiyin Wu , Jianjin Zhou , Herun Yang , Jianrong Zhou , Chenggui Lu , Xin Zhao , Bitao Hu , Yi Zhang

Micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) with micro pixel chamber($\mu$-PIC) readout was developed for the detection of the three-dimensional fine(sub-m illimeter) tracks of charged particles. We developed a two-dimensional position…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Miuchi , Hidetoshi Kubo , Tsutomu Nagayoshi , Atsuhiko Ochi , Reiko Orito , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Masaru Ueno

An interpolating two-dimensional X-ray imaging detector based on a single photon counter with gas amplification by GEM (gas electron multiplier) structures is presented. The detector system can be used for time-resolved structure research…

The long-term stability in terms of gain and energy resolution of a prototype triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector has been investigated with high rate X-ray irradiation. Premixed Ar/CO2 (80:20) and (90:10) gases have been used for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-05 S Chatterjee , S Roy , A Sen , S Chakraborty , S Das , S K Ghosh , S K Prasad , S Raha , S Biswas

A position sensitive thin gap chamber has been developed. The position resolution was measured using the cosmic muons. This paper presents the structure of this detector, position resolution measurement method and results.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Yanyan Du , Tongye Xu , Ruobin Shao , Xu Wang , Chengguang Zhu

Muon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The amount of multidisciplinary applications of…

The Cylindrical GEM-Inner Tracker (CGEM-IT) is the upgrade of the internal tracking system of the BESIII experiment. It consists of three layers of cylindrically-shaped triple GEMs, with important innovations with respect to the existing…

This work reports a cost-effective, multi-parameter readout and data-acquisition system for a muon scattering tomography system based on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Initial test measurements with a prototype Resistive Plate Chamber…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-01 Subhendu Das , Sridhar Tripathy , Sandip Sarkar , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

In recent years important progress in micropattern gaseous detectors has been achieved in the use of resistive material to build compact spark-protected devices. The novel idea presented here consists of the polarisation of WELL structures…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-19 Rui De Oliveira , Marcello Maggi , Archana Sharma

An upgrade of the near detector of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently being conducted. This upgrade will include two new Time Projection Chambers, each equipped with 16 charge readout resistive Micromegas…

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector, one of the advanced members of the Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) group, is widely used in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. The high rate handling capability and spatial resolution make it a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-17 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , R. Paul , S. Sahai , S. Das , S. Biswas

Charge amplification in liquids could provide single-phase xenon time projection chambers with background discrimination and fiducialisation capabilities similar to those found in dual-phase detectors. Although efforts to achieve the high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-05 P. Knights , H. Sekiya , I. Katsioulas , K. Nikolopoulos , K. Kanzawa , I. Giomataris

A novel concept for electroluminescence (EL) structures was recently proposed. In it, a wavelength-shifting material is deposited inside the holes of GEM-like structures which, after suitable optical treatment of its electrodes, improves…

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at CERN LHC is presently equipped with Multi Wire Proportional Chambers (MWPCs). A gating grid prevents ions produced during the gas amplification from moving into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Alexander Deisting , Chilo Garabatos

Systematic investigations including both simulation and prototype tests have been done about the interpolating resistive readout structure with GEM (Gaseous Electron Multiplier) detector. From the simulation, we have a good knowledge of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-12-07 Xiu Qing-Lei , Dong Ming-Yi , Liu Rong-Guang , Zhang Jian , Ou-Yang Qun , Chen Yuan-Bo

The physical processes of charge collection and gas multiplication of a Micro Pixel Chamber (mu-PIC) were studied in detail using a three-dimensional simulation. The collection efficiencies of primary electrons and gas multiplication…

One of the potential problems of a Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD)-based Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the Ion back Flow (IBF): ions generated through the avalanche amplification process flow back to the drift volume of the TPC and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-11 T. Ogawa