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Photosensitive gaseous detectors with a simple photoelectron multiplication mechanism of resistive plate chambers (RPCs) are expected to have both a large photocoverage and an excellent time resolution and to be low-cost. To demonstrate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-24 K. Matsuoka , R. Okubo , Y. Adachi

Compared to Multi Wires Proportional Chambers (MWPC), Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) used in HEP to detect MIPs offer better spatial resolution, counting rate capability, and radiation hardness; their fabrication is also more…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-02 Bruno Guerard , Richard Hall-Wilton , Fabrizio Murtas

Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are used for tracking in High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics because of their large area, excellent spatial resolution capabilities and low cost. However, for high energy charged particles…

The detection of low energy neutrinos ($<$ few tens of MeV) via coherent nuclear scattering remains a holy grail of sorts in neutrino physics. This uncontroversial mode of interaction is expected to profit from a sizeable increase in cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 P. Barbeau , J. I. Collar , J. Miyamoto , I. Shipsey

In this work, we have tried to develop a detailed understanding of the physical processes occurring in those variants of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) that share micro hole and micro strip geometry, like GEM, MHSP and MSGC etc. Some…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Sudeb Bhattacharya

Many current and future nuclear physics (NP) experiments across the United States have and are implementing micro-pattern gas detectors (MPGDs) to be used for tracking and PID purposes. MPGDs are capable of operating in high rate…

The TPC for the International Linear Collider (ILC) will need to measure about 200 track points with a transverse resolution close to 100 microns. The resolution goal is beyond the capability of the conventional proportional wire/cathode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. S. Dixit , A. Rankin

In the last decade, several new imaging gaseous detectors, called micro-pattern gaseous detectors, have been conceived and rapidly developed. In this paper, the most popular designs of these detectors and their applications to high energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-30 V. Peskov

In view of a possible application as a charge-particle track readout for an Active-Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC), the operational properties and performances of a hybrid Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) were investigated in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-23 Marco Cortesi , Wolfgang Mittig , Daniel Bazin , Saul Beceiro-Novo , John Yurkon , Rim Soussi Tanani , Michael Wolff , Andreas Stolz

The requirement of a large number of electronic channels poses a big challenge for Micro-pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) to achieve good spatial resolution. By using the redundancy that at least two neighboring strips record the signal of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Bin-Xiang Qi , Shu-Bin Liu , Heng Ji , Zhong-Tao Shen , Si-Yuan Ma , Hong-Bang Liu , Wen-Qian Huang , Qi An

Micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs) are a class of technologies that enable the full three-dimensional spatial reconstruction of ionisation tracks from nuclear and electron recoils in gas. Anticipating near-future 30 m$^3$-scale time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Anirudh Chandra Shekar , Chiara Lisotti , Nityasa Mishra , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Louis E. Strigari

The RD51 collaboration was founded in April 2008 to coordinate and facilitate efforts for development of micropattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs). The 75 institutes from 25 countries bundle their effort, experience and resources to develop…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Serge Duarte Pinto

We describe the most recent efforts made by various groups in implementing resistive electrodes in micropattern gaseous detectors with the aim to combine in the same design the best features of RPCs (for the example, their robustness and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Fonte , P. Martinengo , E. Nappi , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , F. Pietropaolo , P. Picchi

To meet the need for a high counting rate and high time resolution in future high-energy physics experiments, a prototype of a gas photodetector with an RPC structure was developed. Garfield++ simulated the detector's performance, and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-30 Yiding Zhao , D. Hu , M. Shao , Y. Zhou , S. Lv , Xiangqi Tian , Anqi Wang , Xueshen Lin , Hao Pang , Y. Suna

Optical readout of MicroPattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) makes use of the high granularity of imaging sensors to achieve good spatial resolution for radiation imaging and particle detection. CF4 is widely used as a scintillating gas…

The time resolution of Multigap Resistive Plate Counters (MRPCs) to $511$ keV gamma rays has been investigated using a $^{22}$Na source and four detectors. The MRPCs time resolution has been derived from the Time-of-Flight information,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 G. Belli , M. Gabusi , G. Musitelli , R. Nardò , S. P. Ratti , A. Tamborini , P. Vitulo

UV lasers for the calibration of gaseous detectors have seen newfound employment with current-generation micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs), especially those devices not suitable for tests with traditional sources (e.g. cosmic rays or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-06 Antonello Pellecchia , Antonio Ranieri , Piet Verwilligen

Optically read out gaseous detectors are used in track reconstruction and imaging applications requiring high granularity images. Among resolution-determining factors, the amplification stage plays a crucial role and optimisations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-23 A. Cools , E. Ferrer-Ribas , T. Papaevangelou , E. C. Pollacco , M. Lisowska , F. M. Brunbauer , E. Oliveri , F. J. Iguaz

The aim of the presented work is the development of single-stage amplification resistive Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) based on Micromegas technology with the following characteristics: ability to efficiently operate up to 10…

In the last few years our group have focused on developing various designs of spark-protected micropattern gaseous detectors featuring resistive electrodes instead of the traditional metallic ones: resistive microstrip counters, resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Fonte , E. Nappi , P. Martinengo , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov F. Pietropaolo , P. Picchi