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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

We have produced thick-foil and fine-pitch gas electron multipliers (GEMs) using a laser etching technique. To improve production yield we have employed a new material, Liquid Crystal Polymer, instead of polyimide as an insulator layer. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-07 T. Tamagawa , A. Hayato , F. Asami , K. Abe , S. Iwamoto , S. Nakamura , A. Hayato , T. Iwahashi , S. Konami , H. Hamagaki , Y. L. Yamaguchi , H. Tawara , K. Makishima

We present the first micropattern gaseous detector that employs a small 3D-printed Thick-GEM as its sole gain element. The detector can achieve sufficient gas gain for regular operation without the need for pre-amplification by additional…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-11 J. Collins , M. Hohlmann

The recently completed Forward GEM Tracker (FGT) of the STAR experiment at RHIC took advantage of commercially produced GEM foils based on double-mask chemical etching techniques. With future experiments proposing detectors that utilize…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-27 M. Posik , B. Surrow

A quadruple GEM detector has been assembled in a standalone configuration and operated using Ar and CO$_2$ gas mixtures in proportions of 70:30 and 90:10. Detailed performance study of the detector has been made by using $^{106}$Ru-Rh…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-09 Rajendra Nath Patra , Rama Narayan Singaraju , Saikat Biswas , Yogendra P. Viyogi , Tapan K. Nayak

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

To solve the discharge of the standard Bulk Micromegas and GEM detector, the GEM-Micromegas detector was developed in Institute of High Energy Physics. Taking into account the advantages of the two detectors, one GEM foil was set as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-15 YuLian Zhang , HuiRong Qi , BiTao Hu , ShengNan Fan , Bo Wang , Mei Liu , Jian Zhang , RongGuang Liu , GuangCai Chang , Peng Liu , Qun Ouyang , YuanBo Chen , FuTing Yi

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 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

In this work a set of simulations that aim at the optimization of gaseous detectors for applications in X-ray fluorescence imaging in the energy range of 3 -- 30keV is presented. By studying the statistical distribution of the radiation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-01 Geovane G. A. de Souza , Hugo Natal da Luz , Marco Bregant

A simple X-ray imaging system using off-the-shelf electronics and simple reconstruction algorithms aiming a spatial resolution of 1.7 mm ($\sim 3\,\%$ of the detector length) is described in this work. For this, two 100 cm$^2$ Gas Electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Natal da Luz , J. A. Mir , X. Carvalho , J. M. F. dos Santos

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

MAGIX is a planned experiment that will be implemented at the upcoming accelerator MESA in Mainz. Due to its location in the energy-recovering lane of the accelerator beam-currents up to 1mA with a maximum energy of 105 MeV will be…

In this paper, limitations of the common method measuring intrinsic spatial resolution of the GEM imaging detector are presented. Through theoretical analysis and experimental verification, we have improved the common method to avoid these…

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

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

With future experiments proposing detectors that utilize very large-area GEM foils, there is a need for commercially available GEM foils. Double-mask etching techniques pose a clear limitation in the maximum size of GEM foils. In contrast,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-15 M. Posik , B. Surrow

We present the results of our recent studies on a Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM)-based imaging detector prototype. It consists of two 100x100 mm^2 THGEM electrodes in cascade, coupled to a resistive anode. The event location is…

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

A triple-GEM detector with two-dimensional readout is developed. The detector provides high position resolution for powder diffraction experiments at synchrotron radiation. Spatial resolution of the detector is measured in the lab using a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-12 Y. L. Zhang , H. R. Qi , Z. W. Wen , H. Y. Wang , Q. Ouyang , Y. B. Chen , J. Zhang , B. T. Hu