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Low Gain Avalanche Diodes, also known as LGADs, are widely considered for fast-timing applications in high energy physics, nuclear physics, space science, medical imaging, and precision measurements of rare processes. Such devices are…

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

This paper reports the last technological development on the Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) and introduces a new architecture of these detectors called inverse-LGAD (iLGAD). Both approaches are based on the standard Avalanche Photo…

A study has been carried out to evaluate the performance stability of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) chamber prototypes in the laboratory using $^{55}$Fe radiation source with Argon and CO$_2$ gas mixture. This research focuses on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are key components for precise timing measurements in high-energy physics experiments, including the High Luminosity upgrades of the current LHC detectors. Their performance is, however, limited by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-03 Veronika Kraus , Marcos Fernandez Garcia , Luca Menzio , Michael Moll

A study of the localization properties of a single-element Resistive Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector is presented. The detector comprises of a single-sided THick Gaseous Electron Multiplier (THGEM) coupled to a segmented readout anode through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-22 Luca Moleri , Purba Bhattacharya , Artur E. C. Coimbra , Amos Breskin , Shikma Bressler

This report summarizes the present knowledge on discharges in micropattern and small gap gaseous detectors and the physical mechanisms involved. These include the space-charge (Raether's) limit, rate-induced breakdown, cathode excitation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-04 V. Peskov , P. Fonte

The Ge:Ga detectors used in the PACS spectrograph onboard the Herschel space telescope react to changes of the incident flux with a certain delay. This generates transient effects on the resulting signal which can be important and last for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dario Fadda , Jeffery D. Jacobson , Philip N. Appleton

Due to their simplicity and versatility of design, straight strip or rectangular pad anode structures are frequently employed with micro-pattern gas detectors to reconstruct high precision space points for various tracking applications. The…

We describe a new micro-pattern gas detector structure comprising a multi-layer hole-type multiplier (M-THGEM) combined with two in-built electrode meshes: the Multi-Mesh THGEM-type multiplier (MM-THGEM). Suitable potential differences…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Rui de Olivera , Marco Cortesi

Discrepancies between the measured and simulated gain in Thick Micropatterned gaseous detectors (MPGD), namely THGEM, have been observed by several groups. In order to simulate the electron avalanches and the gain the community relies on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 C. D. R. Azevedo , P. M. Correia , L. F. N. D. Carramate , A. L. M. Silva , J. F. C. A. Veloso

In this work we present a novel idea for a compact spark-protected single amplification stage Micro-Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD). The detector amplification stage, realized with a structure very similar to a GEM foil, is embedded through a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Bencivenni , R. De Oliveira , G. Morello , M. Poli Lener

Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors are gathering interest in the High-Energy Physics community thanks to their fast-timing and radiation-hardness properties, which are planned to be exploited, for example, in timing detectors for the upgrades of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-07 Gabriele Giacomini , Wei Chen , Francesco Lanni , Alessandro Tricoli

This submission will focus on advancements and advantages of Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) technologies and their applications to the construction of a dedicated Time Projection Chamber (TPC) that can serve as an excellent main tracker…

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is a cutting edge Micro Pattern Gaseous detector (MPGD) technology suitable as tracking device in high rate Heavy-Ion (HI) experiments for their good spatial resolution and most importantly high rate handling…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes are a type of silicon Avalanche Photo-Diodes originally developed for the fast detection of minimum ionizing particles in high-energy physics experiments. Thanks to their fast timing performance, the Low-Gain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-07 Gabriele Giacomini , Wei Chen , Gabriele D'Amen , Enrico Rossi , Alessandro Tricoli

We present a comparative study of three resistive Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) technologies - Micromegas, RPWELL, and $\mu\mathrm{-RWELL}$ - with VMM3a based readout, using relativistic muons and pions. The Micromegas and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-04 D. Zavazieva , I. Ravinovich , L. Moleri , M. Borysova , E. B. Shields , O. Arie , M. Kwok Lam Chu , L. Arazi , S. Bressler

Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) provide moderate internal gain and time resolutions of a few tens of picoseconds, making them a key technology for ultrafast timing in high-energy physics and beyond. However, both their gain and timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-28 Weiyi Sun , Mengzhao Li , Mei Zhao , Zhijun Liang

Stabilizing the gain of a radio astronomy receiver is of great importance for sensitive radio intensity mapping. In this paper we discuss a stabilization method using a continuous-wave reference signal injected into the signal chain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander W. Pollak , Christian M. Holler , Michael E. Jones , Angela C. Taylor

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…