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A combination Time Projection Chamber-Cherenkov prototype detector has been developed as part of the Detector R&D Program for a future Electron Ion Collider. The prototype was tested at the Fermilab test beam facility to provide a proof of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 B. Azmoun , K. Dehmelt , T. K. Hemmick , R. Majka , H. N. Nguyen , M. Phipps , M. L. Purschke , N. Ram , W. Roh , D. Shangase , N. Smirnov , C. Woody , A. Zhang

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal candidate to finely study the charged particle ionization in a gaseous medium. Large volumes TPCs can be read out with a suitable number of channels offering a complete 3D reconstruction of an…

Gated wires are widely used in Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to avoid ion back-flow (IBF) in the drift volume. The anode wires can provide stable gain at high voltage with a long lifetime. However, switching on and off the gated grid (GG)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Shuai Wang , Fuwang Shen , Xiao Zhao , Zhihang Zhu , Fangang Kong , Changyu Li , Qinghua Xu , Zhangbu Xu , Chi Yang , Chengguang Zhu

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for the International Linear Collider will need to measure about 200 track points with a resolution close to 100 $\mu$m. A Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) readout TPC could achieve the desired resolution…

A time projection chamber (TPC) based on a gaseous chamber with micro pixel electrodes (micro-PIC) has been developed for measuring three-dimensional tracks of charged particles. The micro-PIC with a detection area of 10 cm square consists…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , T. Nagayoshi , A. Ochi , R. Orito , A. Takada , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno

A new Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is currently under development for the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC. The TPC will be read out using multistage GEM detectors on each end and will be divided into approximately 40 pad layers in radius. Each…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Azmoun , P. Garg , T. K. Hemmick , M. Hohlmann , A. Kiselev , M. L. Purschke , C. Woody , A. Zhang

A time projection chamber (TPC) with micropattern gaseous detector (MPGD) readout is investigated as main tracking device of the International Large Detector (ILD) concept at the planned International Linear Collider (ILC). A prototype TPC…

Gas-based time projection chambers (TPCs) have been shown to be highly sensitive X-ray polarimeters having excellent quantum efficiency while at the same time achieving large modulation factors. To observe polarization of the prompt X-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Z. Prieskorn , J. E. Hill , P. E. Kaaret , J. K. Black , K. Jahoda

Gaseous detectors have long been used by particle physics experiments at beamlines or standalone experiments. Recently, their low momentum threshold has made them interesting as active targets for long baseline neutrino experiments. To…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-13 Philip Hamacher-Baumann

After the Long Shutdown 2 the LHC will provide lead-lead collisions at interaction rates as high as 50kz. In order to cope with such conditions the ALICE Time Projection Chamber (TPC) needs to be upgraded. After the upgrade the TPC will run…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-12 Alexander Deisting

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

Background: The established GADGET detection system, designed for measuring weak, low-energy $\beta$-delayed proton decays, features a gaseous Proton Detector with MICROMEGAS readout for calorimetric particle detection, surrounded by a…

Spatial resolution of less than 200 um is challenging for thermal neutron detection. A novel readout scheme based on the time-projection-chamber (TPC) concept is used in a gaseous electron multiplier (GEM) detector. Thermal neutrons are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 Bernhard Flierl , Otmar Biebel , Ralf Hertenberger , Karl Zeitelhack

The temporal signals from a large gas detector may show dynamical scaling due to many correlated space points created by the charged particles while passing through the tracking medium. This has been demonstrated through simulation using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. K. Mohanty , D. Favretto , F. Carminati , K. Safarik

Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with charge readout via micro pattern gaseous detectors can provide detailed measurements of charge density distributions. We here report on measurements of alpha particle tracks, using a TPC where the drift…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 P. M. Lewis , S. E. Vahsen , M. T. Hedges , I. Jaegle , I. S. Seong , T. N. Thorpe

The concept of a hybrid readout of a time projection chamber is presented. It combines a GEM-based amplification and a pad-based anode plane with a pixel chip as readout electronics. This way, a high granularity enabling to identify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-06 Ulrich Einhaus , Jochen Kaminski

Negative-ion time projection chambers(TPCs) have been studied for low-rate and high-resolution applications such as dark matter search experiments. Recently, a full volume fiducialization in a self-triggering TPC was realized. This…

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 2019-02-15 Uli Einhaus , Uwe Krämer , Paul Malek

The concept of a hybrid readout of a time projection chamber is presented. It combines a GEM-based amplification and a pad-based anode plane with a pixel chip as readout electronics. This way, a high granularity enabling to identify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-23 Ulrich Einhaus , Jochen Kaminksi , Michele Caselle